The golden silk, a luxury once reserved for Roman emperors, has been recreated by modern scientists.

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

The use of white cloth to signal a desire for peace or surrender dates back to ancient times. Roman historian Livy recorded Carthaginians using “white wool and branches of olive” to signal defeat in ...

Like the Byzantines, whose empire survived on ceremony long after it lost its soul, Nigeria developed the rituals of state without the substance of governance. Constitutions were written, torn, ...

When archaeologists unearth ancient shoes, the artifacts are usually about the same size as the footwear we use today. However, during recent excavations in northern England, researchers were ...

Google Just Released an A.I. Tool That Helps Historians Fill in Missing Words in Ancient Roman Inscriptions Known as Aeneas, the tool was trained on an extensive dataset of Latin epigraphy ...

Google’s DeepMind has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of deciphering and contextualising ancient texts, including Roman-era Latin inscriptions. The new AI, named Aeneas ...

Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with interpreting ...

Google’s DeepMind builds AI that helps archaeologists piece together Roman writings Generative AI turns to helping historians decipher ancient Roman history.

A software model from Google DeepMind put a more precise date on an important Latin text credited to a Roman emperor as a demonstration of its capabilities.