AI Reconstructs Face of Pompeii Victim Buried by Vesuvius Eruption

Nearly two millennia after Mount Vesuvius silenced the city of Pompeii, artificial intelligence has done what time could not — returned a face to one of its forgotten dead. Archaeologists combined skeletal analysis with machine learning to generate a probable likeness of a resident killed in the catastrophic eruption of 79 AD, bridging the ancient and the algorithmic in service of human recognition. The reconstruction is not a certainty but a calibrated possibility, and in that possibility lies its deeper meaning: the dead are not data points, and the past is populated by people who looked, in