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A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous warnings, including one that prophesies, “a king will die.” According to a ...

Researchers have just deciphered a series of Babylonian astrological tablets inscribed 3,800 years ago — and the results are truly ominous. Created in the ancient city of Sippar in present-day Iraq, ...

They range in date from c.2500 BC to c.500 BC and were written in the ancient Akkadian (Babylonian) language in cuneiform script. This vital post-excavation work to analyse and interpret these ...

A few cuneiform inscriptions had been deciphered and striking parallels were discovered in them to some of the legends of the Bible and to some of its legislation. A Babylonian version of the ...

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 Eastern scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from tablet photos, allowing them to read complicated scripts easily. Researchers from Cornell ...