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New digital system deciphers 3,500-year-old Hittite script with 90% accuracy

A team of computational linguists and archaeologists has developed a machine learning system capable ...

Scientists have just unlocked a 3,500-year-old ancient code that could rewrite human history

The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to read and translate them.
Artnet

Decoding Babylon: 4 Discoveries That Transformed Our View of the Ancient Empire

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
Metro

Scientists have just unlocked a 3,500-year-old ancient code that could rewrite human history

This cuneiform tablet, just over ten centimetres wide, describes a ceremonial ritual (Picture: Dr Daniel Schwemer/Cover Media) Artificial intelligence is being used to translate ancient clay cuneiform ...