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Lasers, Algorithms and Lost Worlds: How AI Is Rewriting the Map of the Past

Some of the most striking discoveries of recent years were not dug out of the ground, they were computed out of it. Pairing LiDAR, which maps terrain hidden...

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The Library That Fire Could Not Erase: AI Reads the Herculaneum Scrolls

When Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum in 79 AD, it carbonised an entire private library into what looked, for nearly three centuries, like lumps of charcoal. Unrollable, unreadable, untouchable...