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What can we recover, understand and create?

Language, history and culture remain human work even when new tools help recover a fragment.

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Room for strange ideas.

Words can become something you can hold. Come make a little room for the unexpected.

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The evidence so far

DISCOVERY

A public archive that starts with your question.

The National Archives announced that its new The American Story museum exhibition would use AI-driven portals to tailor historical-record exploration to visitors' stated interests, with a route to revisit content online.

Source published 2025-11-18 · Deployed
DISCOVERY

Finding a missing line's ancient neighbors.

Aeneas is a multimodal model that helps historians contextualize damaged Latin inscriptions by retrieving parallels, proposing restorations, and estimating geographic and chronological attribution.

Source published 2025-07-23 · Demonstrated
DISCOVERY

Listening to the ancient world.

Historians working with Ithaca improved the restoration of damaged ancient Greek inscriptions.

Source published 2022-03-09 · Demonstrated

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