All posts tagged: History

Announcing History AI Chat

Published by Jan van der Crabben

We are excited to announce the launch of our History AI Chat – a new way to explore the vast historical knowledge stored on World History Encyclopedia. It’s a credible AI using only reliable sources, designed for educational use. 🏛️ Credible Sources & Trustworthy AI ChatGPT and other popular AI chatbots draw on the entire internet to provide answers, including both reliable sources (such as our website) and unreliable sources (such as Reddit forums or social media). That’s great if you want to get product recommendations or recipes, but not so much for historical research. The World History Encyclopedia AI only draws on reliable, human-created and reviewed sources This groundbreaking new AI tool is made possible through a collaboration between World History Encyclopedia, Open University (CORE) and Perplexity AI. As everything on World History Encyclopedia, our History AI Chat is entirely free of charge to everyone! 🎓 Designed for Education Schools are incredibly important to us at World History Encyclopedia: It is our mission to support history education and provide teachers and students with precisely …

AI at World History Encyclopedia

Published by Jan van der Crabben

With the start of 2025, we have now firmly arrived in the era of artificial intelligence. When people search for information on Google, they are now presented with an AI-generated answer to their question for an increasing number of search queries. As a result, we have seen a noticeable drop in visitors to our website coming from Google – why visit a website when Google gives you the answer? Artificial intelligence puts in question the very  idea of an encyclopedia, and information-based publishing in general. Any publication that is not focused on entertainment or news, but rather evergreen informational content, is challenged by artificial intelligence. Certainly, AI frequently makes mistakes at the moment, but most answers are “correct enough” for the general public and AI companies are working hard to solve this issue. Since the start of the year, we have been working on developing our organisation’s strategy for 2025 and beyond. We have to adapt to this changing environment of technology and media – and embrace AI in one way or another. AI is …

Recommended Blogs: History and Archaeology

Published by Jade Koekoe

While we think Ancient History etc is one of the best Ancient History Blog out there. We also acknowledge there are many other places our readers might enjoy getting their history fix. That is why we have put together this list of recommended blogs that the team of AHetc follow in their spare time. Ancient Foods Since the dawn of time, we have always thought about our next meal. Ancient Foods is a blog that studies what we ate back in ancient times and how we caught or cooked it. Dirty, Sexy History This blog explores some of the issues that have continued to be controversial over time such as marriage, rebellion, health and slavery.       Classics Confidential As the tagline of this blog suggests, each post contains a vodcast on various topics relating to the classics Greek and Roman eras. The vodcasts about ancient Literature and Music are a particular favourite of the Ancient History Etc team. Heritage Trust The Heritage Trust blog is a space to examine heritage sites, artefacts, skills and …