
Artificial intelligence is helping historians recover pieces of the past. Apollo, a specialized AI language model trained on roughly 600 million words of historical Greek, can suggest missing words and passages in damaged papyrus fragments, potentially revealing new details about ancient life that have remained hidden for centuries.
The real breakthrough is how AI can accelerate painstaking historical research, allowing scholars to examine more documents in less time. However, Apollo’s suggestions still require human verification. AI may not rewrite history overnight, but it could help us discover more of it than ever before.

