A Cathedral With a Digital Soul: Notre-Dame’s New Twin
The 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris was a near-catastrophe with one quiet stroke of luck: years earlier, art historian Andrew Tallon had laser-scanned the building, recording around...
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...