Perseus Digital Library

We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (https://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2025/10/15/announcing-a-new-release-of-the-perseus-art-archaeology-artifact-aa-browser/)

The 503 errors appear to have returned. We believe that this may be related to data capture for training models (such as AI LLMs). Unfortunately, there are so many bots at work trying to access our servers at the same time, this overwhelms our server nodes and makes it impossible to maintain service. Manual blocking of sets of IP addresses has been attempted, but, as soon as one set of addresses is blocked, the access will resume from different addresses, and so on. We are working on ways of addressing this and trying to stay ahead of the problem as the situation evolves. As always, thank you for your patience.