Felix K. Maier, professor of ancient history, turns to Phillip Ströbel, a computational linguist. Together, Maier and Ströbel created Re-Experiencing History, a platform that employs artificial intelligence to generate historically informed images of Ancient Greece and Rome. The project merges three AI models, trained on academic literature and ancient sources, to produce visuals rooted in scholarly evidence. AI gives us visual hypotheses, and it is our task to reflect on them.”Dive right into the actionThe AI tool doesn’t produce definitive visualizations but rather invites users to experiment with different scenes. It was evident early on that this approach would work, back when students of ancient history were asked to test various AI models.