Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

Step back in time with a recipe straight from ancient Mesopotamia. This 4,000-year-old lamb stew was discovered on a ...

With all the tributes paid to Steve Jobs over the years, one vital contribution is often overlooked: his profound influence on how we write — not just the act, ...

PROF. TERRIEN DELACOUPERIE has long been known as the advocate of a theory which would bring the ancestors of the Chinese from Western Asia, and see in. the characters they employed derivatives ...

There are thousands of unique cuneiform characters making translation both time-consuming and labor intensive. Hadar Averbuch-Elor, a professor at Cornell Tech, explained in the Cornell Chronicle, ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets.

Tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets are sitting around, just waiting to be translated. It’s not an easy job; the ancient language is based on wedge-shaped pictograms and includes more than 1,000 ...

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 ...

Unlike modern alphabets, which rely on a limited number of characters, cuneiform has over a thousand signs that evolved across different regions and time periods. It’s an archaeological nightmare.

Image Credit: Fedor Selivanov / Shutterstock Middle Eastern scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from tablet photos, allowing them to read complicated ...

Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters. The appearance of these characters can vary across eras ...

Another major corpus, "Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Characters" by Layard, is online in pdf form. Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke [ed.], The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. 1-3, 1861/1866 ...