Archaeologists have uncovered 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablets and seal impressions belonging to an unknown Hittite prince in Turkey.

For 5,000 years, there has been dancing, processions, rituals and feasts. What have we celebrated, from Africa to Asia, ...

As the readings start to pile up and deadlines loom, we’re quickly getting to the point in the semester where students start to panic — and often, the best resource available to you as a Kenyon ...

Join Kayleigh on a tour of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, where ancient Egypt meets Greece, Rome, and the Near East. From colossal statues and sarcophagi to cuneiform tablets and Greek ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists working at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site in Turkey, the ancient capital of the Hittite empire, have uncovered a new language inscribed on a tablet. This ...

This technical note describes the construction and use of a portable silver nitrate test kit designed to be safely usable in the storeroom during collection condition surveys. It provides the ...

Cuneiform Detector is a web application for semantic segmentation of cuneiform tablets using deep learning. The model was trained on electronic Babylonian Library data and is therefore under the ...

The Free Library of Philadelphia has served as a free learning and social oasis since 1891, back when it operated out of three cramped rooms inside City Hall. Today, with branches in every Philly ...

A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. The library’s ...

Nowadays, most people associate artificial intelligence with language models like ChatGPT. However, machine learning can do more than generate text. In the fields of archaeology and philology, A.I. is ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. By Jane Arraf Hobby Lobby, the craft chain that ...