The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts

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The new neural network can help reconstruct missing parts of ancient inscriptions.

The origins of ancient inscriptions are often shrouded in mystery. Writing carved into stone millennia ago can be hard to read and is often missing entire sections of the text.

Now a neural network, trained on thousands of existing inscriptions, could help historians figure out when and where a piece of writing comes from — as well as fill in missing words and characters.

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