Elon Musk backs 'pivotal' archaeology initiative, says AI could help rewrite history books on Ancient Rome

Elon Musk is putting wealth towards a integer renaissance of archaeology aimed astatine reimagining beingness successful past Rome — with the imaginable to rewrite past books.

The Tesla CEO precocious donated $1 cardinal to the American Institute for Roman Culture (AIRC), a non-profit based successful the U.S., done the Musk Foundation.

The funds enactment AIRC's Ancient Rome Live platform, which is dedicated to documenting and preserving Roman practice arsenic portion of its Expandere Conscientiae Lumen initiative.

At an Oct. 24 ceremonial hosted by the AIRC, Musk said that helium was particularly funny successful past Rome, per the Times of London.

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Elon Musk precocious spoke publically aft donating $1 cardinal to enactment probe into Ancient Rome. (Win McNamee/Getty Images; Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

"I americium funny successful past and Rome constitutes a ample portion of the past of Western civilization," said Musk.

The SpaceX laminitis said that AI could capable cognition gaps by helping constitute "a caller past publication based wholly connected past worldly and archaeology."

Though the AIRC has not shared however AI plays into its projects, humanities researchers person incorporated AI for tasks specified arsenic translating past texts, analyzing artifacts and digitally mapping past structures.

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In a connection earlier this year, the AIRC announced that it had received the seven-figure donation, which it said "reinforces Ancient Rome Live's ngo of fostering planetary knowing and appreciation of the past Roman satellite done education, research, and innovation."

"This assistance marks a pivotal infinitesimal for Ancient Rome Live," AIRC manager Darius Arya said successful a statement.

"I americium funny successful past and Rome constitutes a ample portion of the past of occidental civilization," said Musk. (Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)

"We are profoundly honored by the Musk Foundation’s designation of our work," added Arya. "This is confirmation of our enactment and we are truly excited to beryllium the participatory enactment selecting new, innovative projects successful the field."

The remarks followed years of Musk expressing involvement successful past history, particularly Rome.

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Earlier successful 2025, the Tesla CEO was spotted astatine the Colosseum and the Pantheon during his travel to the Eternal City.

In an X station successful August, Musk pondered, "I wonderment if Marcus Aurelius could person done much to transportation Rome to greater heights oregon whether that was arsenic bully a occupation arsenic could person been done."

The AIRC says Musk's assistance supports its ngo to grow planetary knowing of the past Roman world. (Elio Castoria/AFP via Getty Images)

In a 2023 post, Musk wrote that "[t]he main crushed Rome won was due to the fact that they had the champion engineering." 

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Last November, the entrepreneur besides remarked that the U.S. is the "New Rome."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Musk Foundation for comment, but did not instantly perceive back.

Musk suggested that AI could someday constitute a past publication based wholly connected past worldly and archaeology. (Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)

This isn't the archetypal clip AI has been utilized successful the tract of archaeology. In fact, researchers person made important achievements successful caller years by utilizing instrumentality learning.

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Earlier this year, a radical of researchers from the Netherlands, Italy and Denmark recovered that the Dead Sea Scrolls were older than antecedently thought, acknowledgment to an AI model.