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The World Video Game Hall of Fame announces its 2024 inductees
There are a lot of great video games, but only a select few are considered pivotal enough to earn a place within the World Video Game Hall...
Ancestry and the National Archives are digitizing tens of millions of records
The National Archives is partnering with the genealogy company Ancestry to digitize and index tens of millions of US records related to the...
Ancient mystery code was probably Sargon II’s name
King Sargon II was a big fan of seeing his name around town—at least, that’s what one expert believes after reviewing a series of...
A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite
A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of new words hidden within an ancient scroll carbonized during the eruption of...
2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI
Damaged ancient papyrus scrolls dating back to the 1st century CE are finally being deciphered by the Vesuvius Challenge contest winners...
Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
It’s relatively easy to trace a written linguistic history—there’s generally a lot of written documentation and records to study....
‘Extended reality’ will help preserve some of Afghanistan’s most endangered historical sites
A documentary project using cutting edge 3D imaging, drone photography, and virtual reality combined with painstakingly detailed hand...
Ancient Maya masons had a smart way to make plaster stronger
An ancient Maya city might seem an unlikely place for people to be experimenting with proprietary chemicals. But scientists think that’s...
Happy 50th birthday, cell phones
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5 ways to go back in time on the internet
The World Wide Web has been up and running since the early 1990s, and countless amounts of text, images, video, and audio have been...
