Editorial log
This is where we record changes to the Atlas’s historical content: new timelines, new events, and substantial revisions to data, sources, or interpretations.
We extended the bibliographic review to every Atlas timeline. We added dates documented by sources and their publishers, distinguishing publication, update and access dates. We explicitly indicate when document review is pending or a source could not be accessed, without substituting the historical event’s date for its bibliographic date.
View in the AtlasWe expanded the timeline with neural and symbolic foundations, expert systems, robotics, data, biases, African languages, governance and agent safety. We added the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, distinguish experiments from real incidents, and connect people’s contributions with milestones. We also reviewed dates, sources and claims in earlier entries.
View in the AtlasWe reviewed Buddhist and Chinese traditions: corrected dates, completed English descriptions, and replaced general references with specific sources. Uncertain dating, traditional chronologies, lives, and processes are distinguished. Three entries lacking sufficient support for their stated date or event were withdrawn; the corrected selection retains 97 Buddhist and 61 Chinese records. We also corrected 46 secondary assignments to Information and communication: an incidental reference to archives, speeches, or symbols does not justify inclusion in that layer.
View in the AtlasWe added a global timeline from the earliest crossings toward Sahul to 2026 bathymetric mapping, covering Pacific and Indian Ocean navigation, charts, longitude, hydrography, satellite positioning, and profiles of Tupaia, John Harrison, Marie Tharp, and Mau Piailug.
View in the AtlasWe added 990 individual laureates as life spans and 633 awards from 1901 to 2025, with a separate institutional timeline and the Prize in Economic Sciences clearly distinguished.
View in the AtlasWe published 146 milestones from 1497 to 2026 covering expansion, administration, resistance, decolonization, and post-imperial legacies.
View in the AtlasWe completed the initial genetics and biotechnology, work and labor organization, and water infrastructure catalogs: 69 verifiable milestones in total.
View in the AtlasWe added a path from early water-management works to modern networks, dams, and sanitation systems.
View in the AtlasWe made two new layers visible to compare the history of heredity and biotechnology with changes in work and its institutions.
View in the AtlasWe expanded the human-evolution timeline to 22 records with new fossil, archaeological, and genetic findings, each with context and a source.
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