{"id":177000,"date":"2023-11-29T01:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/5000-year-old-tablets-can-now-be-decoded-by-artificial-intelligence-new-research-reveals"},"modified":"2023-11-29T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:23:31","slug":"5000-year-old-tablets-can-now-be-decoded-by-artificial-intelligence-new-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/5000-year-old-tablets-can-now-be-decoded-by-artificial-intelligence-new-research-reveals","title":{"rendered":"5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence, New Research Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5000-year-old-tablets-can-now-be-decoded-by-artificial-intelligence-new-research-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Mainz University of Applied Sciences has unveiled an AI system capable of deciphering ancient cuneiform texts. This novel technology, leveraging 3D models, represents a significant advancement in understanding one of humanity\u2019s earliest forms of writing.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/diglib.eg.org\/handle\/10.2312\/gch20231157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Published in The Eurographics Association journal<\/a>, the researchers\u2019 study focused on a set of cuneiform tablets from <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universitaetssammlungen.de\/sammlung\/236?setLocale=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection<\/a>. These tablets primarily originate from ancient Mesopotamia, a historical region in present-day Iraq. Often referred to as the cradle of civilization, this area is where some of the earliest human societies developed. These tablets, in particular, are inscribed with a series of symbols, signs, and wedges that form the languages of the region, such as Sumerian, Assyrian, and Akkadian.<\/p>\n<p>Many are over 5,000 years old and offer a glimpse into ancient civilizations, covering a wide range of topics from everyday life to legal matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Mainz University of Applied Sciences has unveiled an AI system capable of deciphering ancient cuneiform texts. This novel technology, leveraging 3D models, represents a significant advancement in understanding one of humanity\u2019s earliest forms of writing. Published in The Eurographics Association journal, the researchers\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}