"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn - a ...

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.

More specifically, the team was able to develop a neural network that is capable of translating Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform into English. The researchers published a paper of their findings ...

Thousands of documents, most written in either the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using the cuneiform script, survive to this day; but translating them can be a major headache.

Cuneiform tablets are up to 5,000 years old and present details of life in ancient Mesopotamia. Now scientists have trained an AI program to scan their text and detect what it says.

Cuneiform, meanwhile, originated around 3400 BCE and is one of the earliest writing systems used to document several ancient dialects, including Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Aramaic, and Old Persian.

Scholars have used A.I. to translate fragments of ancient cuneiform texts into English with what they say is a high degree of accuracy. ... most of them written in Sumerian or Akkadian, ...

The Fragmentarium does A.I. cuneiform translation, ... The Fragmentarium can work much faster than a human Assyriologist to translate these age-old texts from the original Sumerian and Akkadian.

Developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia, an ancient region centered in modern-day Iraq and the surrounding regions, more than 5,000 years ago, cuneiform is not a language in itself.