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AI Restores and Deciphers Cuneiform Tablets

August 2, 2024

Cuneiform is one of the oldest known types of writing. Archeologists were first able to decipher it back in the mid-19th century.

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Ancient Assyrian cuneiform script on a stone tablet from Nimrud
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Thousands of clay tablets covered in the script are in museums, many in fragments. Restoring them is a task for AI.

 

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