Essays on technology, artificial intelligence and historiography, translated from Turkish.https://berkantkul.com.tr/enhttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/workplace-safety-in-antiquity/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/workplace-safety-in-antiquity/Hammurabi held the builder responsible for a collapsed house. Roman paint workers tied bladders over their faces to keep out dust. Vitruvius noticed that working with lead ruined workers' health. The roots of workplace safety are older than we think.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/shipping-in-antiquity/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/shipping-in-antiquity/Persian couriers, the stations of the Royal Road, the clay envelopes of Kültepe and the post carriages of Augustus. The thrill and the frustration of waiting for a parcel are older than we think.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/working-life-in-the-ancient-world/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/working-life-in-the-ancient-world/Unexpected excuses for skipping work, a strike by workers whose wages were late and the letter of an angry customer. The troubles of office life are much older than we think.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/ai-in-antiquity/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/ai-in-antiquity/A chatbot at Delphi, a data centre in Alexandria, a debate on artificial intelligence in the agora. The ancient world was not as foreign to this idea as we think.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/can-ai-create-a-historian/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/can-ai-create-a-historian/Artificial intelligence can read sources, summarise them and even form hypotheses. So what makes a historian a historian, and can it be coded?Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/how-the-ottoman-archive-works/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/how-the-ottoman-archive-works/Around 95 million documents, six centuries of record keeping and the barrier of an old script: a short look inside one of the largest archives in the world.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/social-media-in-antiquity/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/social-media-in-antiquity/Status updates were scratched into walls and the annual recap was carved into a monument: the stone and marble mirror of social media in the ancient world.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/hello-world/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/hello-world/Like the first line of every program, this blog begins with an opening post: why I am here and what I am going to write about.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/how-ai-is-changing-historiography/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/how-ai-is-changing-historiography/From handwriting recognition to network analysis: where artificial intelligence touches the historian's method, and the traps to watch out for.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/source-criticism-and-code-review/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/source-criticism-and-code-review/The historian knows how to trust a document, the engineer how to trust code. At the heart of both disciplines lies the same question: who left this trace, when and why?Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/knowledge-in-the-age-of-large-language-models/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/knowledge-in-the-age-of-large-language-models/Fluent is not the same as true: principles, traps and changing reading habits I have learned while working with LLMs.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/a-short-history-of-open-source/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/a-short-history-of-open-source/From the 1950s, when sharing code was normal, to the age of artificial intelligence: a short summary of a long debate about who owns knowledge.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/notes-on-historiography/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/notes-on-historiography/How does history become a text? A quick tour of the turning points in the tradition of historiography.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/roman-roads-and-internet-protocols/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/roman-roads-and-internet-protocols/Two networks built two thousand years apart: a short comparison of nodes, standards and resilience.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/finding-lost-cities-with-lidar/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/finding-lost-cities-with-lidar/How does laser scanning make ancient settlements under forests visible? A short story of digital archaeology.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/the-archive-of-the-future/https://berkantkul.com.tr/en/blog/the-archive-of-the-future/Link rot, obsolete file formats, platforms that shut down: how durable are the records of the digital age for the historian?Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT