Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the artist explores the unique qualities of ASL through drawing, video and ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at ancient tool making, SpaceX’s big explosion, reducing AI’s big power draw ...

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

Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

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 ...

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.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday cut staffers in its cloud division, according to people familiar with the matter. The reductions affected fewer than 100 people working in sales operations ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

Alphabet's $75B AI CapEx in 2025, and 4X compute efficiency gains, are expected to drive solid ROI and top-line growth. Google achieved 4X more computing power per kilowatt in five years, lowering ...