A team of computational linguists and archaeologists has developed a machine learning system capable ...

The tech tools are able to decipher and reconstruct fragments Hittite texts in a fraction of the time it has taken humans to ...

Room L.1932 and the entrance to the upper room L.1238 in the background, view from the SW, 2022 season. Credit: M. Jean et al. 2026 The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words ...

For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of the Middle East—many over 4,000 years old and written in languages that ...

At the same time Apple announced the AirPods Pro 3 last year, the company also introduced a new feature called Live Translation. It makes the idea of the Babel fish, so evocatively described in The ...

A newly decoded collection of 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets from Babylonia sheds light on this belief system, revealing the prophetic warnings that shaped the destiny of kings and empires. These ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors. A room in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh with ...

OpenAI has released ChatGPT Translate, a direct competitor to Google Translate that works with more than 50 languages. The tool uses the power of artificial intelligence not only to translate text, ...