On Wednesday, March 12, the Trojan War began in Ithaca with the powerful cries of Emily Wilson speaking in Ancient Greek. Yet this was no ordinary recitation of the words of one of the most iconic ...

Google says its DeepMind AI, Ithaca, can now decipher ancient Greek texts from damaged artifacts. Ithaca is said to be even better at Greek text restoration tasks than its predecessor, Pythia. Back in ...

The island of Ithaca has long enchanted scholars, poets, and travelers alike. Generations of archaeologists have wandered its craggy terrain, asking the same old question: could there be truth buried ...

Homer’s legendary hero Odysseus wandered for 10 years in search of his island kingdom, Ithaca. Now, a British amateur archaeologist claims to have ended the ancient quest to locate the land described ...

Homer's Ithaca had been viewed as a work of poetic licence and imprecise geography. However, as recent research shows the island's form may have been disguised over the past two millennia by ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Machine learning techniques are providing new tools that could help archaeologists understand the past — ...

As if being a scholar in ancient Greek wasn’t hard enough fundamentally, the primary texts they rely on are frequently damaged beyond repair, being as they are thousands of years old. Historians may ...

The 93-year-old Museum of Earth in Ithaca could face foreclosure soon. That's according to a report from WBNG in Binghamton, ...

IN a recent letter to the Times Dr. Schliemann describes his search for the ancient capital of the island of Ithaca. He began his researches in the valley called Polis, which is in the northern part ...

ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Greeks on Friday hailed a new study showing the modern-day island of Ithaca is the same as that of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus, rejecting a recent British theory that ...