Cuneiform, meanwhile, originated around 3400 BCE and is one of the earliest writing systems used to document several ancient dialects, including Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Aramaic, and Old Persian.

Cuneiform tablets are up to 5,000 years old and present details of life in ancient Mesopotamia. Now scientists have trained an AI program to scan their text and detect what it says.

The Birth of Written Language. The invention of written language was one of the most significant steps in coding human ...

Enuma Elish, a Babylonian Epic of Creation, written on cuneiform tablets in Sumero-Akkadian script in the 7th century BC A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict missing ...

Akkadian, the language of the Akkadian Empire that thrived in present-day Iraq during the 24th to 22nd centuries BCE, poses unique challenges for translation.

Researchers Decipher Cuneiform Tablet—and Discover It’s a Furniture Receipt The small clay rectangle is engraved with an ancient Semitic language known as Akkadian ...