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AI Revives Lost Roman Texts

Google DeepMind has released Aeneas, a powerful new AI tool that helps historians read, date, and understand damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire.

Aeneas analyzes fragments using both text and image data to restore missing words and match them with over 176,000 ancient writings.

It can identify where inscriptions came from with 72% accuracy and estimate dates within 13 years.

Tested by 23 historians, the tool’s suggestions were helpful in 90% of cases, boosting confidence in tasks by 44%.

Tools like Aeneas show how AI can uncover lost parts of human history. By helping restore ancient languages, this technology could be key to understanding our shared past, not just in Latin, but in many other forgotten languages around the world.