I always thought of history more like a movie than a series of real events. I'd seen people all over the internet creating similar images – colorized Roman statues, colorized photos; and I wanted to give it a shot," Saladin wrote on her blog.

Using artificial intelligence, Dutch photographer Bas Uterwijk released on Friday modern images of the Egyptian King Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) and Queen Nefertiti. The pictures, which Uterwijk posted on his Twitter page, are based on old carvings and engravings that portrayed the two. The artist said in his post: "I don't claim to be a scientist. The historical portraits I make are based on artworks mostly made during the period of their subjects. With AI I filter out the sculpting styles of ancient portraiture and guide it to a credible outcome."

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of an online tool that uses artificial intelligence to decode and translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. The tool -- called fabricius -- will be useful for presenting an interactive experiment to globalists to help them learn hieroglyphics more efficiently. It will also help increase Egyptologists' awareness of the history and heritage of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The tool was made available on the Google Arts and Culture platform, which allows users to learn about arts and cultural artifacts from roughly 2,000 cultural institutions worldwide. The tool uses machine learning to ease the collection, indexing and understanding of hieroglyphic symbols. The tool to help Egyptologists translate hieroglyphics into English is now available, with the Arabic tool set to unveil soon.