History - Research Articles

How the Soviet Union’s unique mix of ideology and academia produced an outsized cadre of linguists obsessed with linking the world’s languages.

A comprehensive historical analysis of claims that Phoenician sailors reached the Americas before Columbus, examining evidence and scholarly debate from classical antiquity to modern times.

A comprehensive analysis of evidence and scholarly debate surrounding pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact between the Americas and Old World civilizations.

Survey of speculative theories on pre-Columbian knowledge of the Americas and possible Medici foreknowledge.