Amid tech companies’ ongoing efforts to vacuum up as much data as possible to train AI models, Meta has taken public posts from its own platforms, scraped massive amounts of content from the rest of ...

Let’s travel back to April 2024, when archaeological circles buzzed with the news of extraordinary progress in unlocking the legendary Herculaneum papyri. Scholars had paired state-of-the-art ...

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad used during embalming. The papyrus was identified as part of the ...

The scroll was first discovered in the 1750s but was too fragile to open. Using AI, scholars deciphered the full text and discovered a philosophical treaties on ethics and human progress. An ancient ...

A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount ...

Once thought to be unreadable, 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls from one of antiquity’s only surviving libraries are finally spilling their secrets—and National Geographic got a first look at what they ...

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of Barcelona and led by Maite Mascort and Esther Pons, has identified a papyrus ...

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic ...

Apple is helping to bring chip manufacturing back to the U.S. To find out how far the company has to go, WSJ’s Rolfe Winkler went behind-the-scenes to some of its suppliers in the Southwest. Photo: ...