Peter Turchin, from the Complexity Science Hub, and an international team of collaborators decided to evaluate the historical knowledge of advanced A.I. models such as ChatGPT-4, Llama, and Gemini. According to the results, the A.I. chatbots struggled with historical knowledge. GPT-4-Turbo emerged as the best-performing model but still only achieved a 46% balanced accuracy—barely above the baseline of random guessing. 

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel. Originally marking land borders under Roman Emperor Diocletian’s tax reforms, the stone provides insight into ancient land ownership, local settlement patterns, and imperial administrative practices. The discovery also introduces two previously unknown place names, expanding our understanding of the region’s historical geography and socio-economic landscape.

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought, according to a new study.

Homo erectus, the first of our relatives to have human-like proportions and the first known early human to migrate out of Africa, was the focus of the new study led by the international research team.

The award will support a three-year Archivist-in-Training program, designed to provide undergraduates with comprehensive archival training and hands-on experience while preserving significant historical collections in Northeast Florida.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe.