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

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

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.

M.K. Stalin has announced a $1 million prize to decipher the enigmatic Indus Valley script. Scholars believe the script, ...

With the new approach, they can make an accurate copy of any character and reproduce whole tablets. Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing and consists ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge - especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted into 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use artificial ...

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