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Named Aeneas (after the mythical hero of Rome’s foundation epic), the system is a generative neural network designed to provide context for Latin inscriptions written between the 7th century BCE and ...

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 ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman observation about volcanic ash is inspiring researchers to reinvent cement and slash its carbon ...

Scientists at U.K.-based DeepMind, the Google LLC laboratory that specializes in advanced artificial intelligence, have ...

Was the famous story of the Great Fire of Alexandria just a myth? Did Christians really burn the Library or is the truth more ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get their name from their orbits. These dwarf planets orbit the sun at a ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a remarkable device discovered in an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece, has long been a ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Then, the scientists compared the ancient Egyptian genome with those of more than 3,000 modern people and 805 ancient individuals, according to the study authors.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced a complete DNA set from an ancient Egyptian man, the oldest studied sequence, dating to when the pyramids were constructed. The analysis, published in ...