Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...

Researchers report that AI deciphered the Hammurabi tablet at 98% accuracy, opening the door to translating ancient cuneiform ...

A poetic text nearly 3,000 years old has just resurfaced, bringing back to life a voice lost since antiquity. A Babylonian ...

The text was a description of an unknown hymn that praised Marduk, the Esagil, Babylon, and the Babylonians, hinting at the ancient people’s lives.

A team of researchers led by Professor Enrique Jiménez of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has succeeded in ...

The full hymn was scattered among fragmented pieces of clay tablet, but using an AI program, experts were able to piece together the ancient song.

The six cuneiform clay tablets, dating back to the Third Ur, Old Akkadian, and Old Babylonian periods (24th to 18th centuries BCE), contain economic, administrative, and religious content.

Researchers used artificial intelligence to piece together a 250-line hymn celebrating ancient Babylon’s architecture, ...