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

ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...

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

The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt reed, and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a ...

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.