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While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.

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Tool’s first-ever destination festival took place over the weekend in the Dominican Republic, and it appears that the band was booed at the end of its second show of the fest for not living up to its ...

Tool headlined the festival Friday (March 7) and Saturday (March 8) night, but didn't diversify their setlists much. Four songs made the setlist both nights — "Fear Inoculum," "Rosetta Stoned ...

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For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, with scholars dedicating years to deciphering individual tablets.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s recent announcement of a $1million prize for anyone deciphering the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) has renewed popular interest in the language ...

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 ...