Archaeology, epigraphy, manuscripts, provenance, and historical interpretation
Artifact Research Workbench
Move from an artifact dossier to the exact physical line: inspect synchronized photographs or project facsimiles, original-language text, transliteration, translation, commentary, source attribution, and explicit editorial uncertainty.
Research architecture
What V12.8 adds
V12.8 preserves the V12.7 research architecture and adds line-addressable epigraphy, manuscript reading units, formal media records, deep zoom, synchronized selection, visual enhancement controls, rights metadata, stable line links, and epigraphic exports.
Interpretive discipline
Five evidence classes
Evidence class describes what an object can contribute. It does not replace separate judgments about authenticity, provenance, dating, reading, or identification.
Curated pathways
Research exhibitions
Open a historically organized collection to evaluate what several artifacts establish together—and where the cumulative case still stops.
More filters and workbench actions
Workbench results
Complete artifact corpus
No artifacts match the current filters.
Source transparency
Research coverage and unresolved source work
The workbench now distinguishes a record’s existing source from missing technical editions, excavation reports, independent studies, and lawfully reusable media.
Open prioritized source-gap register
Credibility guardrail
Real objects, disputed claims, and exclusions
Famous claims without controlled context are not mixed into the research corpus as though they carried the same evidentiary weight.