Researchers have developed ProtoSnap, an AI-driven approach that precisely identifies and reproduces cuneiform characters, ...

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

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

In his latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, he explores the complex evolution of human society through information networks—from cuneiform clay ...

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 ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known ... doors once thought to be permanently sealed. With the right tools, historians may one day reconstruct lost libraries, decode ...

1600–1178 BCE) from present-day Türkiye, were often credited with early knowledge of iron production, not only due to the discovery of iron weapons, tools, and ornaments but also because of Hittite ...

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

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 ...