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Old February 8th, 2023 #1
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Default AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old ‘lost book’ describing life after Alexander the Great

AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old ‘lost book’ describing life after Alexander the Great


Feb 7, 2023

A 2,000-year-old “lost book” discussing the dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great may finally be deciphered nearly two millennia after the text was partially destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and, centuries later, handed off to Napoleon Bonaparte.

The reason for the breakthrough? Researchers are using machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, to discern the faint ink on the rolled-up papyrus scroll.

“It’s probably a lost work,” Richard Janko, the Gerald F. Else distinguished university professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan, said during a presentation at the joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, held in New Orleans last month. The research is not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Only small parts of the heavily damaged text can be read right now. “It contains the names of a number of Macedonian dynasts and generals of Alexander,” Janko said, noting that it also includes “several mentions of Alexander himself.”

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