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The Vesuvius Challenge awarded a $50K First Letters Prize after Liam Warner and Nicola Bodill recovered readable ancient text from PHerc. 306B, marking the first time writing has been seen on this scroll in 2000 years. Their ink-identification work also determined that 306B is the upper section of the scroll, making it a prime candidate for virtual unrolling.
Google DeepMind announces a new skill that grounds Gemini in expert models Aeneas and Ithaca, enabling historians to study Greek and Latin texts using plain English.
A tweet announcing a tentative dating of Sanskrit literature at Dharmamitra.org based on linguistic features, with a link to the platform that uses AI (including Gemini API) to support scholarly study and translation of ancient texts.