To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

An artificial-intelligence program is able to predict missing words from cuneiform tablets that are up to 4,500 years old with stunning accuracy. The tablets include information about Mesopotamia from ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet during post-earthquake restoration work at the ancient city of Alalah. The tablet, dating to the Late Bronze Age, details a ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

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 ...

Archeologists have discovered a 3,800-year-old cuneiform clay tablet in southern Türkiye during restoration work after the massive earthquakes in the region earlier this year. Murat Akar, an ...

ANCIENT texts scribbled on 5,000-year-old tablets can be finally decoded thanks to the groundbreaking AI technology. The new research used "Google Translate"-like program to uncover the mysteries ...

At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...

A discovery in southern Iraq has given us a rare glimpse into the world of ancient bureaucracy. Researchers from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed over 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have made a groundbreaking discovery while completing earthquake restoration work. Their finding is set to shine new light into life in the 15th-century BC. Article continues ...