一名软件工程师通过AI代理和定制化研究流程，对荷兰东印度公司档案进行系统搜索，在435万页历史文献中发现了多项被遗忘的重要记录1。这项工作利用快速筛选AI模型、文本向量化和多层验证机制，仅用12小时就完成了人工需要70年才能完成的文献阅读工作1。
发现的历史记录包括一起陨石坠落事件：1812年8月6日，一块重约4磅、含铁量高、表面有黑色外壳的陨石坠落在印度Cokurrgaum村附近，这一事件的记录发表于同年12月19日的《爪哇政府公报》上1。此外，研究还挖掘出了爪哇犀牛的运输记录——1738年荷兰东印度公司从巴达维亚森林捕获一头爪哇犀牛送给康迪国王，但该犀牛在同年死于马厩1；1740年7月5日，船只Loverendaal从巴达维亚运送一公一母两头犀牛前往锡兰，公犀牛于船出发后第三天上午8点左右死亡，母犀牛十天后也死亡1。
研究还发现了三场未被记录在案的火山喷发事件：甘科诺拉火山于1722年2月3日喷发，齐雷迈火山于1712年初喷发，斯拉梅特火山于1780年2月喷发1。这些发现来自GLOBALISE项目对荷兰东印度公司手写文件的数字化转换工作1。该工程师计划开源研究工作流工具包Antiquity，供任何人进行类似的历史档案调查1。
A software engineer deployed artificial intelligence agents to systematically search through the Dutch East India Company archives, discovering previously forgotten historical events buried within 4.35 million pages of digitized documents and newspapers.1 The research utilized a custom workflow powered by multiple AI models, including Claude Opus, Claude Haiku, and Claude Code, to accomplish in twelve hours what would have required approximately seventy years of manual archival review.1
Among the significant findings was documentation of a meteorite impact in India on August 6, 1812, near Cokurrgaum village, where a four-pound iron meteorite with a distinctive black surface crust fell and was reported in the Java Government Gazette on December 19, 1812.1 The research also uncovered detailed records of three Javan rhinoceroses transported by the Dutch East India Company: one captured from the Batavia forest and sent to the King of Kandy in 1738, where it died in the stable that same year, and two others—one male and one female—loaded aboard the ship Loverendaal from Batavia bound for Ceylon in 1740, both of which perished during the voyage, the male rhinoceros dying on the morning of the third day after departure and the female ten days later.1 Additionally, the project identified three previously unrecorded volcanic eruptions: Gankogoro volcano on February 3, 1722, Tjiremai volcano in early 1712, and Slamet volcano in February 1780.1
The GLOBALISE project, which converted the Dutch East India Company's handwritten files into searchable text, made this discovery possible.1 The engineer plans to open-source the research workflow toolkit, called Antiquity, enabling others to conduct similar investigations into historical archives.1
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