Ancient voices come alive in a new UT exhibition, featuring rare papyri and everyday writings. Free at the Ransom Center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scene from Ramose While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a ...

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 ...

A set of ancient texts burned by the volcanic eruption on Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. have been deciphered thanks to a team of researchers using AI. The nearly 2,000-year-old texts were unreadable after ...

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Many ancient ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A scholar from the Netherlands used AI to determine that the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously believed. The new AI model pairs ...

Happiness "lights up" similar areas on both modern and ancient body maps, with the exception of the liver, which was more significant for the ancient Mesopotamians. Modern: PNAS / Lauri Nummenmaa et ...

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 ...

From confining plasma for nuclear fusion to solving 50-year protein folding problems, DeepMind's AI is starting to prove itself on the frontiers of modern science. To aid research into the history of ...

In January, Tamar Gendler began a six-month leave from her duties as dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). But she was hardly sitting still. During the spring semester, Gendler, who is ...