{"id":180085,"date":"2024-01-08T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-is-helping-decode-the-oldest-story-in-the-world"},"modified":"2024-01-08T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:24:03","slug":"ai-is-helping-decode-the-oldest-story-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-is-helping-decode-the-oldest-story-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"AI is helping decode the oldest story in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwHJAltbAik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>German researchers are developing an algorithm to help decode ancient cuneiform tablets \u2014 including those containing the oldest known work of world literature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient poem: <\/strong>The Epic of Gilgamesh is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/hard-tech\/antikythera-mechanism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Babylonian<\/a> poem first written in <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-present\/hobby-lobby-forfeits-biblical-artifacts-smuggled-from-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cuneiform characters<\/a> on clay tablets around 4,000 years ago. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, the king of the city of Uruk, and his quest for immortality.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries, the poem was copied onto countless other tablets in both the original Sumerian language as well as Akkadian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German researchers are developing an algorithm to help decode ancient cuneiform tablets \u2014 including those containing the oldest known work of world literature. Ancient poem: The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian poem first written in cuneiform characters on clay tablets around 4,000 years ago. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, the king of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180085","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}