Editorial policy

Amazing Facts is written and edited by a small editorial team. This page explains the standards every story follows.

Choosing stories

We cover discoveries that are well documented: finds made by identifiable people, at known places and times, and studied by researchers whose work is published. We avoid stories that rest only on rumour, and we do not publish pseudo-history as fact.

Research and fact-checking

• Every factual claim in a story is checked against at least one reliable source, and claims that are surprising or disputed are checked against more than one.
• We prefer primary and expert sources: museum and heritage-body publications, peer-reviewed research, excavation reports and books by the scholars involved.
• All sources are listed at the end of each article.
• Where experts disagree or the evidence is uncertain, we say so instead of picking the most dramatic version.
• Our "Legend or fact?" sections look at popular claims about a discovery and explain which are accurate, which are exaggerated and which are false.

Illustrations and films

Many of our illustrations are AI-generated reconstructions. We use them to show how a scene may have looked, for example a diver on the seabed in 1900, where no photograph exists. They are always captioned as reconstructions and are never presented as photographs, finds or evidence. The same applies to scenes in our companion short films. Photographs of real objects, when we use them, are credited with their source and licence.

Use of tools

We use software tools, including AI tools, to help with research, drafting and illustration. Every article is reviewed, fact-checked against the listed sources and edited by a person before publication, and we take full responsibility for what we publish.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix it. Confirmed errors are corrected promptly and the article's "Updated" date is changed. Significant corrections are noted at the end of the article. To report an error, please contact us.

Independence

Our stories are not sponsored. The site is supported by advertising, and advertisers have no influence over what we publish.