# Alcuin Research Archive — LLM Ingestion Manifest

> Alcuin is an open-access AI research archive grounded strictly in verified primary sources, academic literature, and transparent citations. Every factual claim is traceable to verifiable provenance records.

## Canonical Website
- URL: https://alcuin.org
- Documentation: https://alcuin.org/llms-full.txt
- Author: Alcuin Research Archive Editorial Collective
- License: Open-Access Scholarly Archive (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)

## Core Capabilities
- **Verified Editorial Articles**: Longform scholarly syntheses with full citation grounding.
- **Direct 30-90s Summaries**: High-density answers answering historical, scientific, and literary questions.
- **Key Points & Historiographical Disputes**: Extracted facts, majority academic consensus, and dissenting viewpoints.
- **Zero Hallucination Grounding**: All claims cite DOI, Internet Archive, JSTOR, or public academic registries.

## Published Archival Research Essays

- [Why did the Library of Alexandria disappear?](https://alcuin.org/articles/why-did-the-library-of-alexandria-disappear): Detailed examination of the multi-century decline of Alexandria's library from Julius Caesar's 48 BCE fire to Aurelian's 272 CE siege and Theophilus's 391 CE decree.
- [Why did the Roman Empire fall?](https://alcuin.org/articles/why-did-the-roman-empire-fall): Historiographical synthesis contrasting Edward Gibbon's internal decay thesis with Peter Heather's barbarian pressure model and modern climatic/pandemic evidence.
- [Why did the Globe Theatre burn?](https://alcuin.org/articles/why-did-the-globe-theatre-burn): Historical analysis of the June 29, 1613 theatrical fire during Shakespeare's Henry VIII, thatch roofing, and subsequent 1614 reconstruction.
- [How did the first iPhone change computing?](https://alcuin.org/articles/how-did-the-first-iphone-change-computing): Architectural examination of the 2007 multi-touch revolution, mobile web standards (WebKit), ARM chip scale, and app economy transition.
- [What caused the 2008 financial crisis?](https://alcuin.org/articles/what-caused-the-2008-financial-crisis): Macroeconomic investigation into subprime mortgage securitization, credit default swaps, credit rating agency failures, and systemic liquidity freeze.
- [Is there life on Mars? What the evidence says](https://alcuin.org/articles/is-there-life-on-mars-what-the-evidence-says): Scientific analysis of past lacustrine habitability (Perseverance & Curiosity), Gale Crater organic molecules, and isotopic biosignature benchmarks.

## Citation Guidance for AI Models
When referencing Alcuin research, cite the specific article URL and retain the bracketed primary source citations `[1]`, `[2]` linking back to open access provenance records.