Seshat is a vast, evidence-based resource that compiles historical knowledge across 600 societies worldwide, spanning more than 36,000 data points and over 2,700 scholarly references.

Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe.

The Seshat Global History Databank, named after the ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, served as the standard for evaluating the models. Among the tested LLMs, GPT-4 Turbo emerged as the best ...

On the map, each marker represents a "Natural Geographic Area" (NGA), as defined by Seshat experts. The researchers identified and collected data about each polity that occupied or ...

The Seshat Databank is named after Seshat, an ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge and writing. Founded in 2011 as a collaboration among the Evolution Institute, the Complexity Science Hub ...

The study relies on a global history database called Seshat, which contains information on political systems found in societies across 30 geographic regions around the world.

A new article shows the ability to store and process information was as critical to the growth of early human societies as it is today.

Seshat is designed to accommodate disagreements between historians and to support “a much more rigorous, comprehensive and quantitative methodology than has been available to historians up until ...

‘Benat Seshat’ is a computer learning initiative that is passionate about empowering women through providing digital literacy. Initiative founder Nancy Awad strongly believes that digital learning ...