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The model, called Aeneas, is designed to contextualize Latin inscriptions by tracking down similarities across thousands of ancient texts. Google DeepMind says researchers can adapt Aeneas to other ...
A University of Warwick epigraphy expert has collaborated with Google DeepMind to evaluate "Aeneas," an AI model that ...
A scholar has recently discovered a previously unknown Sumerian myth inscribed on a long-overlooked 4,400-year-old tablet.
Artificial intelligence has already been used to fill in gaps in ancient Roman scrolls, but a new system goes much further. It can fill in missing words from ancient Roman inscriptions carved on ...
Google DeepMind has unveiled new artificial-intelligence software that could help historians recover the meaning and context ...
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.
Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...
We explore stunning similarities between Native American, ancient Egyptian, and Inca cultures. Our journey uncovers megalithic stonework, reed boats, and the mysterious Sherman Stone, hinting at a ...
Researchers claim to have a method of using AI to date the Dead Sea Scrolls — this could have implications for the way we ...
Both Hebrew and Chinese emerged from pictographic origins. Before alphabets and phonetics, their letters and characters were ...
Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...
A newly examined inscription found in Sinai, Egypt may read “This is from Moses,” sparking debate about ancient script.