A model trained on 104 modern languages, including Hebrew and Arabic, was surprisingly good at translating the ancient Mesopotamian language Akkadian (from which Hebrew and Arabic are descended ...
“Language is not only a tool; it is also a monument.” Journeying across both continents and millennia, Spinney tells the epic and fascinating story of how one ancient language – Proto-Indian ...
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to decipher ancient historical scripts that were previously a mystery to archaeologists. Historically significant scripts such as China's Bone Oracle ...
Beyond the Dmanisi region, Georgia's ancient territories were a melting pot of cultures that left their mark in a variety of scripts. Epigraphs written in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Middle Persian ...
In total, the researchers identified 39 unique symbols on the “book-sized tablet”, several of which are repeated to give a total of 60 characters. “The script, some of whose 39 characters ...