The 7th century C.E. Arab and Arabized conquerors later had the audacity, as is occurring right up to present times, to ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

Researchers used AI to decode a Babylonian text lost for 1,000 years, revealing new details about life and culture in ancient ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

Without AI, it would have taken decades to decode. The text, inscribed on an ancient tablet, is from Babylon, Mesopotamia - once the largest city in the world in 2000 BCE.

The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

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

A long-lost hymn praising the ancient city of Babylon has been rediscovered after being forgotten for over a thousand years.

The “free citizens” ( ṣābū kidinni) of Babylon are, for the author of this hymn, in essence the priests of Babylon — an indication that its author probably was a member of this class. The Babylonians ...