Hacker News with Generative AI: Ancient Civilizations

Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia (arstechnica.com)
A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern Caucasus mountains with similar walled communities.

Archaeology, History, Georgia, Ancient Civilizations, Bronze Age

4 points by thunderbong 9 days ago | 0 comments

Did OpenAI's O1 Decipher the Indus Valley Script? (yashgoenka.com)
A few weeks ago, I had a fascinating conversation with OpenAI's O1 model about decoding the Indus Valley script - one of the world's oldest and still undeciphered writing systems.

Artificial Intelligence, History, Linguistics, Ancient Civilizations

7 points by yashvg 11 days ago | 3 comments

A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon (2022) (pudding.cool)
South American and Mesoamerican civilizations have fascinated me since childhood, when I would watch The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

Art, History, Ancient Civilizations, Mesoamerica

20 points by cromulent 45 days ago | 2 comments

'Maya blue': The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost (aljazeera.com)
A ceramicist in Mexico retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment for the first time in more than two centuries.

Art, History, Mexico, Color, Ancient Civilizations

5 points by mooreds 47 days ago | 1 comments

Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru's Desert (nytimes.com)
With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.

Archaeology, Peru, History, Ancient Civilizations, Technology

33 points by morninj 55 days ago | 22 comments

Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles (nature.com)
Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes.

Archaeology, History, Mexico, Sound, Ancient Civilizations

62 points by tosh 57 days ago | 33 comments

Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI (thedebrief.org)

AI, Archaeology, Peru, History, Ancient Civilizations

91 points by thunderbong 113 days ago | 32 comments

Temple and theater 3,500 years older than Machu Picchu discovered in Peru (cnn.com)

Archaeology, History, Peru, Ancient Civilizations

64 points by begueradj 189 days ago | 2 comments

The lifespans of ancient civilisations (2019) (bbc.com)

History, Archaeology, Ancient Civilizations, Sociology

17 points by doener 205 days ago | 2 comments

Yupana: The Fibonacci number grid-based calculator of the Incas (2019) (mathematicsmagazine.com)

Mathematics, History, Ancient Civilizations, Fibonacci Sequence

41 points by zdw 210 days ago | 25 comments