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December 12, 2023

Using AI to Read Cuneiform Tablets

Tim Slavin
Staff Writer

Ashley Van Haeften on Flickr

Scientists have combined 3D scanning with artificial intelligence to read 5000 year old cuneiform tablets, some of the oldest human documents. These tablets cover everything from lists to court decisions to medical texts. There’s an estimated million cuneiform tablets that still exist.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-automatic-text-recognition-ancient-cuneiform.html

Source: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/gch20231157

Tim Slavin
Staff Writer Tim Slavin 661 posts
Tim is a long-time staff and freelance technical writer for Reuters, DoubleClick, MongoDB, Amelia, and other companies. He also has worked as a website producer. He enjoys teaching technology skills to normal non-technical people, kids included. He’s played with internet technology since the Well and Usenet.
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