Archive · 30 Sep 2025
AI Model 'Aeneas' Aids in Latin Inscription Analysis
Imagine a computer program, called Aeneas, that helps historians read old Latin writings.
It can tell how old the writings are, where they came from, and even guess what words are missing.
Aeneas was taught using lots of old writings and can find connections that humans might miss.
When tested, it worked well, and it can also help historians find links between different writings from all over the Roman Empire.
This will help historians learn more about the past faster, and more accurately, and will also help them guess missing text.
An AI model, Aeneas, helps analyze Latin inscriptions.
Aeneas can date inscriptions and suggest their geographical origins.
The model was trained on over 175,000 inscriptions.
Aeneas can predict missing text segments in damaged inscriptions.
Historians working with Aeneas get more accurate results.
- Who
- Researchers at Google DeepMind and University of Nottingham
- What
- Developed an AI model to analyze Latin inscriptions
- When
- Paper published this week in Nature
- Where
- Analysis covers the Roman world, from Britain to Mesopotamia
- Why
- To improve the accuracy and speed of dating and interpreting ancient texts
- AI Model Name
- Aeneas
- Developed By
- Google DeepMind and University of Nottingham
- Training Data
- Over 175,000 Latin inscriptions
- Time Span
- 7th century BC to 8th century AD
- Functionality
- Dates inscriptions, suggests origins and missing text
- Accuracy
- Dates texts to within 13 years of the accepted figure in tests