The text runs in a pattern called reverse boustrophedon, where you’ve got to read alternate lines upside down – like a really complicated game of flip-the-text. Local tradition says their ancestors ...

Document image analysis for historical text segmentation encompasses computational methods to convert digitised images of manuscripts, early prints and archival materials into structured textual data.

In a discovery that feels almost like something out of a movie, archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered fragments of a famous ancient text hidden inside a Roman-era mummy. But this isn’t just ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...

Later Chinese historical text from the “Hanshu” (Book of Han), an official dynastic history, providing additional details about the 709 BCE eclipse. This source includes the description that the ...