Finally, the AI history nerds have been waiting for

I've been following the Vesuvius scrolls story for years. The idea that 18th-century charcoal and machine learning can read what Pliny the Elder's nephew was thinking? That's the kind of cross-disciplinary weirdness that gets my seventh graders to actually look up from their phones. Still, I'm waiting for the part where someone finds a grocery list — history is mostly grocery lists.