Artificial intelligence is now better at deciphering damaged ancient Greek texts than humans, scientists have said. A team of researchers has created the "first ancient text restoration model," which ...

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A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

Google says its DeepMind AI, Ithaca, can now decipher ancient Greek texts from damaged artifacts. Ithaca is said to be even better at Greek text restoration tasks than its predecessor, Pythia. Back in ...

DeepMind’s latest AI program is faster and better than humans in predicting the missing words in ancient Greek inscriptions. Jasper Smith/Unsplash In a recent collaboration between DeepMind and the ...

As if being a scholar in ancient Greek wasn’t hard enough fundamentally, the primary texts they rely on are frequently damaged beyond repair, being as they are thousands of years old. Historians may ...

An artificial intelligence algorithm developed as part of a collaboration between historians and UK-based AI firm DeepMind can help restore ancient Greek texts with 72 per cent accuracy. The AI can ...

An illustrated Greek medical text was found beneath the oldest Arabic translation of the Gospels. Courtesy of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt Last summer, Giulia Rossetto, a specialist ...

Fragments of an ancient Greek text telling of an invasion of Greece by the Goths during the third century A.D. have been discovered in the Austrian National Library. The text includes a battle fought ...

Hiding a hangover in ancient Egypt would've taken some work. Rather than popping an ibuprofen for a pounding drunken headache, people in Egypt may have worn a leafy necklace. That's according to a ...