Cuneiform-inspired polymer could be the future of sustainable digital storage (or not) Australian researchers are adapting the long-extinct writing method to store digital data By Alfonso Maruccia ...

Now, Middle East scholars can use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and copy over cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.

In their new approach, the researchers used 3D models of nearly 2,000 cuneiform tablets, including around 50 from a collection at MLU. According to estimates, around one million such tablets still ...