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Ancient Inscriptions
Credit: Acropolis Museum/Socratis Mavrommatis Ancient civilizations have held fascination for historians and anthropologists ever since humans became curious about the past. Deciphering life in civilizations past meant that excavated tools, vessels, assorted items, inscriptions etc. had to be unearthed and examined. The most informative of these would be the inscriptions on scrolls, papyri, stone, metal, or pottery. A lot of these inscriptions are incomplete due to damage and large chunks of the inscribed text are often illegible. Determining where the texts originated from can be a challenge since they may have been moved multiple times. Dating these texts is another challenge as radiocarbon dating and similar methods can't be used since they can damage the priceless artifacts. Enter AI. Researchers from DeepMind collaborated with researchers from the University of Oxford to develop Pythia , an ancient-text restoration system based on Deep Learning. The database used was of the