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"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn - a ...
The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.
In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...
These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the oldest piece of literature in the world, and tells the story ...
Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, in Joshua Hammer's The Mesopotamian Riddle ...
Cuneiform: the world’s first writing system Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest ...
The script they deciphered became known as cuneiform, and this distinctive wedge-shaped writing system is perhaps the oldest in the world. The earliest cuneiform tablet is in fact over 5,000 years ...
Hittite Cuneiform - 1700 BCE Much like its predecessors, the Hittite Cuneiform adopted Akkadian Cuneiform, borrowing around 375 signs from its roots. It was mainly used by the Hittites inhabiting ...
Electronics Tech Culture storage australia Cuneiform-inspired polymer could be the future of sustainable digital storage (or not) Australian researchers are adapting the long-extinct writing ...
Cuneiform, the world's oldest form of writing, involved making indentations in clay tablets. Scientists have now developed a data storage system that's like cuneiform on steroids – and it's ...