Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...

Could AI Language Models Like ChatGPT Unlock Mysterious Ancient Texts? In the paper, the researchers demonstrated that the ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 11, The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; With a Memoir (Continued) (1849), pp. 1-192 ...

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.