Deep Learning Helps Recover Historic Inscriptions with Unprecedented Precision

A conservationist works on a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor bearing Greek writing, discovered in Jerusalem's Old City. (Reuters file photo)

A new AI-based deep learning technique has recovered ancient Greek texts, determined they date to the 5th century AD, and pinpointed their original location with an unprecedented precision.

According to Agence France Press (AFP), this technique described in the journal Nature, allows historians specializing in epigraphy to track tens of thousands of inscriptions engraved in stone, clay or metal.