An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

Before email, before the printing press, before the alphabet you’re reading right now — there was cuneiform. Pressed into wet clay with a sharpened reed, these wedge-shaped marks became humanity’s ...

Deciphering ancient languages and texts has been a challenge for archaeologists for generations. Now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to quickly translate ancient texts and languages ...

UCLA’s Division of Humanities announced recently that the Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Language (MTAAC) project, developed in part by UCLA Near Eastern Languages and ...

Twenty-five centuries ago, the “paperwork” of Persia’s Achaemenid Empire was recorded on clay tablets—tens of thousands of which were discovered in 1933 in modern-day Iran by archaeologists from the ...

Google Translate is great. But what if a similar service can go further, translating even ancient or archaic languages to modern context? It takes years and years of studying and research to ...

An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient Near East, is involved in investigating the discovery. The new ...