Stories by benbreen

Edgar Allan Poe's America

The Trap of Fairytale Victory Endings in Historical Fiction

Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update

Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the nomadic Xiongnu

The Largest Greek Manuscript?

It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid

Thunderbird and Whale

Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860)

Electoral graffiti found inside Pompeii house

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude

The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper

Was There a Qing Administrative Revolution?

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes?

A mystery species was discovered in trafficked pangolin scales

The year Lou Reed gave up on music

Guide to searching and annotating text on maps

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

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