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 ...
Somewhere around 4,000 years ago, a scribe in the ancient Near East pressed a reed stylus into wet clay and wrote out ...
Researchers translated the cuneiform writing, which is characterized by symbols gouged into moist clay. Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Researchers have discovered that a clay tablet found in ...
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 ...
About 1,400 cuneiform tablets that were possibly stolen from Irisagrig, a 4,000-year-old lost city in Iraq, have just been revealed. Even though archaeologists know the tablets originated in that lost ...
The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...
Not the exact thing you want to read on an ancient tablet if you happen to be any sort of superstitious. But it’s one of several omens that a group of archaeologists read when they finally deciphered ...
Room L.1932 and the entrance to the upper room L.1238 in the background, view from the SW, 2022 season. Credit: M. Jean et al. 2026 The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their ...
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 ...
Here's what we know about Zaze. She was a woman. She lived some 3,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey. And as the manager—or maybe owner—of a furniture workshop, she employed at least seven ...
Millennia ago, someone in the province of Hatay in Turkey made a shopping list that would surprisingly survive the ravages of time. During restoration works after an earthquake, archaeologists digging ...