For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...

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 ...

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 11, The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; With a Memoir (Continued) (1849), pp. 1-192 ...

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

An estimated 500,000 cuneiform tablets sit in museums ... the team applied a diffusion model—a type of generative AI model often used for computer vision tasks, such as image generation ...