One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

(CNN) — After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Since the November elections gave Democrats a lift and Republicans a jump scare, politicians and their campaign teams are likely looking ...

"Lesbian" is a demonym for the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos, so why does it today describe female homosexuality?

“There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

Yang Hexiang, director of the Yunnan Provincial Library, introduces the digital ancient books the institute released on Dec 30. [Photo by Wang Ru/China Daily] After centuries spent quietly on library ...

Google’s DeepMind has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of deciphering and contextualising ancient texts, including Roman-era Latin inscriptions. The new AI, named Aeneas, could be a ...

Artificial intelligence, meet ancient Rome. A new A.I. tool developed by Google DeepMind helps scholars fill in words missing from ancient inscriptions and estimate historical data about the textual ...

2012 was a rough year for many of us. Over 20 years ago Queen Elizabeth II had a terrible year that she identified as an "Annus Horribilis". Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase meaning horrible year, ...

Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names. Body parts would probably have been one of the first things that ancient peoples gave names to, so not only do we find hundreds of ...