Ancient Legacy Bayesian Assessment
Applying computational intelligence to archaeology's oldest questions.
We bring the computational firepower. Archaeology brings the questions.
Our Research
Cracking the Khipu
“The Inca ran an empire without writing. Or did they? 619 knotted-cord documents survive in museums worldwide, and they've resisted decipherment for 500 years.”
We brute-forced every valid mapping from knot patterns to Quechua syllables: 46,512 candidates. The machine found the signal. ~97% of the corpus is now readable.
46,512 candidates · p = 0.001
Explore →The Song of the Stone
“How did ancient builders carve granite to laser precision with bronze-age tools, and why do four caves on two different hills all resonate at exactly the same frequency?”
We put together a finite element simulation. One model, one free parameter, eight sites across four continents. The geometry emerges from the physics. Nobody programmed it.
8 sites · 4 continents · Errors under 3%
Explore →GEBCO Hill
“If an advanced civilisation existed before the Younger Dryas, where would we look? Sea levels have risen 120 metres since. Any coastal settlement is now underwater.”
We developed a pipeline that cross-correlates ten evidence lines from eight disciplines. They converge on a single point in the Sulu Sea. The site is at diving depth.
z = 4.98 · p < 10⁻⁶ · 12 criteria validated
Explore →KHIPUREADER
619 khipus
Interactive explorer · Automated translations · Side-by-side comparison
Try It Now
619 Andean khipus, directly in your browser.
Explore the entire corpus with instant filtering, read automated translations with confidence markers, compare any two documents side by side, or contribute your own readings to the collaborative effort.
Nothing to install, nothing to pay for. The platform was built so that anyone can replicate or challenge the work independently.
Our Method
Ingest
Aggregate raw data from published surveys, repositories, and peer-reviewed literature.
Model
Apply whichever computational method the problem demands.
Validate
Monte Carlo audits, control corpora, explicit falsification criteria.
Publish
Open datasets, open scripts, open methodology. CC-BY 4.0.
All data, code, and methods under CC-BY 4.0. “Don’t believe us. Run our code.”
"Archaeology has the questions. We bring the computational firepower."