Across the ancient southern Levant, some cylinder seals carried inscriptions that looked like cuneiform but could not be ...

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The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

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To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual. Researchers at Germany's University of Wurzburg have unveiled a groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool that ...

Learn how AI is helping researchers reconnect shattered clay tablets and recognize the handwriting styles of individual scribes more than 3,000 years after they wrote in cuneiform. Some ancient ...

An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

Machine generated contents note: -- I. Materiality and literacies -- 1. Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans, Jonathan Taylor -- 2. Accounting in proto-cuneiform, Robert K. Englund -- 3. Numeracy ...