Editor Annikka Olsen joins the podcast to discuss the long and complex history of the famous 'Discobolus' sculpture. A Roman copy of Myron's Discobolus at the British Museum. Photo: Leon Neal/AFP via ...

From decoding ancient star charts to revealing hidden authors of the Bible, AI is unlocking secrets buried for centuries. Historians now combine traditional scholarship with machine learning to ...

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing historical research, from decoding ancient texts to uncovering hidden patterns in archives. By automating tedious tasks, AI frees historians to focus on ...

Artificial intelligence is used to find out what some carbonized Herculaneum scrolls say. Reading the Herculaneum scrolls required multiple scientific steps that started with taking extremely ...

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...

A groundbreaking voyage brings travelers face-to-face with 65,000 years of living artistry, as the rugged Kimberley’s sacred galleries open their ancient doors to modern adventurers. ByPaul Jebara, ...

Researchers studying an ancient form of writing used by the Incas in pre-Columbian South America have unraveled new clues to a longstanding mystery. The research, undertaken by Professor Sabine Hyland ...