{"id":218824,"date":"2025-07-27T03:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-helps-latin-scholars-decipher-ancient-roman-texts"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:04:20","slug":"ai-helps-latin-scholars-decipher-ancient-roman-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-helps-latin-scholars-decipher-ancient-roman-texts","title":{"rendered":"AI helps Latin scholars decipher ancient Roman texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-helps-latin-scholars-decipher-ancient-roman-texts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans\u2014and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with interpreting them.<\/p>\n<p>But a new artificial intelligence tool, partly developed by Google researchers, can now help Latin scholars piece together these puzzles from the past, according to a study published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Inscriptions in Latin were commonplace across the Roman world, from laying out the decrees of emperors to graffiti on the city streets. One mosaic outside a home in the ancient city of Pompeii even warns: \u201cBeware of the dog\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans\u2014and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with interpreting them. But a new artificial intelligence tool, partly developed by Google researchers, can now help Latin scholars piece together these puzzles from the past, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}