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 ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form of wedges, the Latin word for which ...

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 ...

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.