AI tool revolutionises the study of ancient cuneiform texts
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3,500-Year-Old Hittite Handwriting Deciphered by New AI System
A Hittite document from the mid-13th century BCE. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0 A new AI tool can now identify the distinct handwriting of individual Hittite scribes on ancient clay tablets, giving researchers a major advantage in piecing together one of history’s earliest written records. Scientists at the University of Würzburg and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz developed “Palaeographicum,” which scans digitized photogr…
AI tool revolutionises the study of ancient cuneiform texts
Researchers in Germany have unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of identifying individual variations in cuneiform writing, marking a major breakthrough in the study of the ancient Near East. The system, known as “Palaeographicum”, was developed through a collaboration between the University of Würzburg, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, and the Technical University of Dortmund. It is designed to analyse digitised i…
German researchers have unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of identifying individual variations in cuneiform, already being hailed as an important breakthrough in the study of the ancient Near East.
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