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AI won’t ever make a historically accurate film – but it could help archaeology create better stories

AI won’t ever make a historically accurate film – but it could help archaeology create better stories

The evidence we have from Troy is incomplete so it’s impossible to create complete historically accurate images from it.

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Stephan Blum

AI won’t ever make an historically accurate film – but it could help archaeology create better stories

AI won’t ever make an historically accurate film – but it could help archaeology create better stories

The evidence we have from Troy is incomplete so it’s impossible to create complete historically accurate images from it.

yesterday 10

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Stephan Blum

Parthenon marbles loan to Greece is not a simple solution – who gets control over objects?

Who should have control over not only how artefacts move but are understood?

21.10.2026 10

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Why Indiana Jones is the best and worst thing to happen to archaeology

The idea of archaeology as adventure predates the discipline itself.

25.09.2026 30

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Why Odysseus couldn’t just say: ‘I’m home’

When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca he doesn’t walk through the door and say who he is. Here’s why.

22.07.2026 40

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Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

The fragment wasn’t placed besides the body, but stuffed inside it.

12.05.2026 40

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Why some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilisations

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

17.03.2026 100

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Rethinking Troy: how years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city

The real heartbeat of Troy is a story that history has long forgotten.

29.01.2026 50

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Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – and it holds lessons for today

Long before industry, ancient societies were already pushing their ecosystems to the brink

12.08.2025 40

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Stephan Blum