AGENTIC-SYSTEMSOctober 24, 20251 min read30 views

Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past

Researchers have introduced Aeneas, the first AI model designed to contextualize ancient inscriptions, helping historians restore and interpret fragmentary texts with unprecedented speed.

Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

Writing was everywhere in the Roman world â etched onto everything from imperial monuments to everyday objects. From political graffiti, love poems and epitaphs to business transactions, birthday invitations and magical spells, inscriptions offer modern historians rich insights into the diversity of everyday life across the Roman world.

Often, these texts are fragmentary, weathered or deliberately defaced. Restoring, dating and placing them is nearly impossible without contextual information, especially when comparing similar inscriptions.

Today, weâre publishing a paper in Nature introducing Aeneas, the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions.

When working with ancient inscriptions, historians traditionally rely on their expertise and specialized resources to identify âparallelsâ â which are texts that share similarities in wording, syntax, standardized formulas or provenance.

Aeneas greatly accelerates this complex and time-consuming work. It reasons across thousands of Latin inscriptions, retrieving textual and contextual parallels in seconds that allow historians to interpret and build uponÂ the modelâs findings.

Source: Google DeepMind Blog

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