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

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

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

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

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

The writing system, known as cuneiform, involved pressing symbols into clay tablets using a stylus. Although people stopped speaking Sumerian around 2000 BCE, it continued to be used for religious ...

In the Akkadian language spoken by Ashurbanipal and his people, the word for scribe testifies to the effort it took to master the 1,000-odd symbols of the cuneiform writing system. It translates as ...

Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...

This writing system eventually evolved into the cuneiform around 3000 BCE, which could express not only administrative details but also legal codes, events, literature, rituals, and religious texts.

Cuneiform is the earliest known system of writing, first developed for the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia in the second half of the 4th millennium BC. Cuneiform signs are obtained by ...

"Students typically begin the project trying to use the stylus on the clay tablet like it was a pen on paper. By the end of the project, though, they've realized that they need to use a completely ...