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Technology could overcome the challenges in both variation and quantity of cuneiform tablets.

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

Middle East scholars can now use artificial intelligence to identify and copy cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease.

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