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

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

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.