AI helps historians decode centuries-old encrypted manuscripts and secret remedies
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Sandrine Ceurstemont
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Summary
Artificial intelligence is helping historians decode centuries-old encrypted manuscripts and ciphers that have remained unread for hundreds of years. The article explores how AI tools are being used to crack mysterious texts in libraries and archives worldwide, including a Vatican library manuscript containing secret medical remedies. These historic documents, often written in complex ciphers to protect sensitive knowledge from suspicion or persecution, are now being revealed through machine learning and pattern recognition technologies.
Key quotes
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Artificial intelligence is helping historians crack open these mysterious texts.
Its cryptic pages apparently concealed secret remedies 'for affections of the human body', according to some text scratched inside the cover.
Such healing practices were kept under wraps at the time since they could attract suspicion or even persecution.
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