documented
v.v. to record information in writing, photos, or film so that people can see it later. You do this to prove that something happened or to keep a history of it.
v. to record something in written, photographic, or other form to provide evidence or information. Transitive; requires a direct object representing the event or data being recorded.
The scientists documented every change in the weather.
The journalist spent three years traveling across the country to document the lives of families living in remote mountain villages.
Historians have meticulously documented the rise and fall of the dynasty, drawing on thousands of private letters and official government records to reconstruct the era's social fabric.
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object.