AI is taking on a writing system that has challenged scholars for generations. The new technology could give researchers a ...

Cuneiform is one of the earliest writing systems in human history. Archaeologists have traced its beginnings to around 3400–3300 BC, more than 5,000 years ago. It also lasted for a remarkably long ...

A carved monument from Assyrian King Ashurbanipal's time has surfaced at Bab Shamash, with a royal image and cuneiform ...

A new Google AI tool might be able to translate at the speed of actual conversations, allowing you to talk more naturally with someone speaking a different language from you. Google recently unveiled ...

According to Dr. Irving Finkel, Curator and Assyriologist, the earliest evidence for writing was in southern Mesopotamia around 3200–3350 BC during the late Uruk period. These first clay texts didn’t ...

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 ...

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual (Picture: Dr Daniel Schwemer/Cover Media) Artificial intelligence is being used to translate ancient clay cuneiform ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have deciphered a collection of cuneiform writing from the earliest civilizations of the Near East. The analysis of extinct languages ...

ONE of the most interesting peoples of the ancient world was the Sumerian race, which founded the great civilisation of Babylonia. The cuneiform writing of western Asia was their invention, and the ...

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This project aims to build a comprehensive pipeline for digitizing, annotating, and translating cuneiform tablets. We combine computer vision, natural language processing, and domain expertise to ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Naomi Harris’s translations of three Hittite poems appear in our new Fall issue ...