How Discoveries is produced.

Discoveries is the news section of Hierolyte, covering new finds, exhibitions, and research from the world of ancient Egypt. This page states plainly how its articles are made, because readers - and the researchers whose work we report - deserve to know.

Where stories come from

Stories are drawn from a maintained whitelist of institutional sources: university press offices, museums, ministries of antiquities, and established science-news services that republish institutional announcements. We do not source stories from social media, forums, or anonymous claims.

How articles are written

Articles are drafted with AI assistance, working only from the cited source material. The drafting rules are strict: no facts, dates, measurements, or translations that the source does not state; no invented readings of hieroglyphic texts; claims attributed to the institutions that made them. A draft that cannot support an honest article is discarded rather than padded.

Human review before publication

Nothing is published automatically. Every draft sits in a review queue until a human editor has read it, checked it against its sources, and approved it. Publication is technically blocked - at the database level - for any article without at least one verified source.

Sources on every story

Every published article lists its sources at the end, with links. Where a science-news service credits an original institution, we cite the institution as well when a verifiable link exists. Articles are marked as generated from the cited sources and reviewed before publication.

Images

Photographs are used only under open licences (public domain, CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-SA), always with a visible credit line naming the photographer and licence. Where no openly licensed photograph exists, articles carry a stylised illustration that is clearly labelled as such; we never present generated imagery as a photograph of a specific find.

Corrections

If we have got something wrong, we want to know. Use the contact form (topic: Egyptological correction) and we will review promptly. Corrected articles are updated in place; the correction is noted where it materially changes the story.

Discoveries is edited by Lucas Young. Read more about Hierolyte.