Researchers said they developed an AI system to help fill in missing words in ancient writings.

研究人员表示，他们开发了一种人工智能系统来帮助填补古代作品中缺失的单词。

He was comparing it to the ancient piece of stone that helped experts understand ancient Egyptian writing.

他将其与帮助专家破译古埃及文字的那块古代石头进行比较。

The chest opens, revealing a scroll with ancient writing in a strange language you don't recognize. What do you do?

箱子打开后，里面有一辐卷轴，上面用奇怪的语言写了古文字，你们不认识这门语言，你们要怎么做？

And monks, tasked with preserving ancient writing, likely neglected or destroyed her work.

承担保护古代文字任务的僧侣们很可能忽视或毁坏了她的作品。

Ancient writing, too, was like an impenetrable forest until, slowly, punctuation and spacing emerged.

古代文字也像一片密不透风的森林，直到标点符号和空格慢慢出现。

Some researchers took this and other ancient writings to wrongly speculate that earlier societies were colorblind.

一些研究人员根据这本书和其他古代著作错误地推测早期社会是色盲的。

She explained how lots of ancient hieroglyphic writing on papyrus survives, and how it helps us better understand the mysteries of the pharaohs.

她解释了许多关于纸莎草纸的古代象形文字是如何幸存下来的，以及它如何帮助我们更好地理解法老的奥秘。

It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.

大火可能烧毁了部分馆藏书籍，但从古代的文字记录中发现，在围困发生后的几个世纪里，学者们依然继续拜访图书馆。

The concept can be found in some form or another in most cultures across the world and across history, ranging back all the way to some of our most ancient writings.

这个概念可以在世界各地和历史上的大多数文化中以这样或那样的形式找到，一直追溯到我们最古老的一些著作。

Others believe the symbol emerged in medieval times when scientists attempted to illustrate Aristotle's ancient writings on anatomy, where he described the human heart as having three valves with a dent in the middle.

还有人认为这个符号是在中世纪时期出现的，因为当科学家试图解释亚里士多德关于解剖的古老著作时，发现他在其中描述人类心脏有三个瓣膜，中间有个凹陷。

To be a papyrologist — to tease sense from damaged, ancient, near-illegible writing — you need to possess linguistic brilliance, a profound historical imagination, and a codebreaker's ability to play with different hypotheses of a text's meaning.

要成为纸质文献学家——从受损、古老、几近难以辨认的文字中揣摩意义——你需要具备语言学的才华、深刻的历史想象力，以及像密码破译者一样，能够运用不同的假设解读文本含义的能力。