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DeepMind’s new AI tool helps resolve debate over ancient Athenian decrees

Enlarge / This fragmented inscription records a decree concerning the Acropolis of Athens and dates back to 485-484 BCE. (credit: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0) Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of damaged inscriptions from ancient Greece. The new system, […]

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First victim of the tsunami that trashed the Eastern Mediterranean found

Enlarge (credit: Sahoglu et al. 2021) Archaeologists working in what is now western Turkey recently unearthed the rubble left behind by a series of powerful tsunamis that will slammed into a Bronze Age city. The giant waves were triggered by the eruption of the volcano Thera on the island associated with Santorini, hundreds of kilometers […]

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