This episode is about  Aeneas, an artificial intelligence model developed by Google DeepMind in collaboration with multiple universities, designed to assist historians in contextualizing and interpreting ancient inscriptions.

Aeneas builds upon prior work with Ithaca, specializing in Latin texts, but with adaptability for other ancient languages and media.

The model's advanced capabilities include searching for parallels, processing multimodal inputs (text and images), restoring gaps of unknown length, and achieving state-of-the-art performance in dating and geographical attribution of these historical fragments. The project emphasizes collaborative research, making Aeneas freely available to foster further historical inquiry and integrate AI into existing research workflows.