Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Artificial intelligence is now better at deciphering damaged ancient Greek texts than humans, scientists have said. A ...

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...

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 ...

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to Troy. It may be the first Greek literary text found in the context of mummifi ...

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Printing Museum, Tokyo to present research findings on the Vatican Apostolic Library’s Greek Manuscripts at “How Masterpieces Are Born: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery is a major first for ancient Egyptian scientists.

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

For more than a century, scholars have known that the ancient city of Emesa, now the Syrian city of Homs, once housed a ...