Stories by benbreen

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing slave trade (2024)

Mummies' Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus

Sutton Hoo and Syria: Anglo-Saxons who served in the Byzantine army?

How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020)

Public Domain Image Archive

Wends of Texas

Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins

Dancing Days of the Maya

The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024)

Archimedes, Vitruvius and Leonardo: The Odometer Connection (2020)

Abstand and Ausbau Languages

Secondary Consciousness

White House Reconstruction

Gods: Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919)

Synergistic, multi-level understanding of psychedelics

Why did clothing become boring?

Minakata Kumagusu

For the Love of a Little Sea

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