The great minds of ancient Greece could offer lessons to large language models that struggle to say "I don't know".

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries. In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 04 - Quality Education. In the past decades, the study of the ancient and pre-modern world has experienced enormous change, thanks to the ...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," goes the saying we've all heard and paraphrased one way or another when talking about the past, current events, and even personal ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history. Team leader Youssef Nader and two other team ...