Tag Digital Humanities

New Humanistic Horizon: Why AI Is Rebooting the Humanities

The decline of humanity. The man reaches for the light. Cyberpunk.

The rise of generative AI has sparked fears that humanities disciplines—long built on careful interpretation, deep questioning, and rich archives—will be rendered obsolete. But as New Yorker essayist D. Graham Burnett argues, AI’s takeover of routine scholarship actually clears the…

How AI Is Breathing New Life Into Ancient Scrolls Burned by Vesuvius

Monk chronicler writes an ancient manuscript

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius unleashed a catastrophic eruption that buried entire Roman cities under volcanic ash and lava. Among the ruins of these once-vibrant communities lie ancient scrolls—fragile carriers of history, literature, and philosophy—that were nearly obliterated by the inferno.…