An AI project specializing in palaeographic reconstruction has successfully deciphered a series of fragmented stone inscriptions and palimpsests written in the rare 6th-century 'Box-Headed' script found in Central India. The results, published in The Journal of Heritage Science, reveal fragments of a lost Sanskrit treatise detailing advanced principles of combinatorial logic and set-theory precursors.
The AI model, which was trained on thousands of variations of early Brahmi scripts, identified recursive patterns in the text that describe mathematical permutations for linguistic structures. This discovery suggests that ancient Indian scholars were employing formal logical frameworks to categorize grammatical and philosophical concepts centuries before similar systems were formalized in Europe.