Cuneiforms: New digital tool for translating ancient texts
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250326123733.htm
How #Mesopotamian was Ahiqar the Wise?
A Search for #Ahiqar in #Cuneiform Texts, Berlejung, Maeir, and Schüle eds, Wandering Arameans: #Arameans Outside #Syria
https://www.academia.edu/34084863/How_Mesopotamian_was_Ahiqar_the_Wise_A_Search_for_Ahiqar_in_Cuneiform_Texts_Berlejung_Maeir_and_Schüle_eds_Wandering_Arameans_Arameans_Outside_Syria
The number of CC-BY-SA #cuneiform #tablets just got bigger by 44. Also having #IIIF manifests and #3D/PLYs. Also the first time that Luis Sáenz as an assyriologist collected and prepared the dataset :) Steffen Bauer, Heidelberg and Timo Homburg, Mainz supported the work on the technical side.
https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/search?ot=objekte&p=1,574
Major milestone in digital cuneiform studies: Researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool with many new possibilities for Hittite studies https://press.uni-mainz.de/cuneiforms-new-digital-tool-for-researchers/ @dfg_public
‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/stone-tablets-mesopotamia-iraq-red-tape-bureaucracy "Ancient #Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations" #cuneiform
AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters — https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/03/ai-models-makes-precise-copies-cuneiform-characters
#HackerNews #AI #Cuneiform #Characters #AI #Models #Precision #Technology #History
Cornell Chronicle: AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters. “Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters…. Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed an approach called ProtoSnap that ‘snaps’ into place a prototype of a character to fit the individual […]