Artificial intelligence resurrects lost voices of the Roman Empire

In the 18th century, an archaeological find fascinated the world: more than 1,800 rolls of papyrus calcined by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., discovered in the ruins of a luxurious Roman village in Herculano, near Naples. For centuries, experts believed that it would be impossible to read those documents, reduced to brittle tubes like coal. However, what seemed lost forever begins now to emerge from the shadows thanks to a combination of X…