AI Just Decoded A 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Script And It Could Rewrite History
Researchers at Germany’s University of Wurzburg have unveiled a groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool that is transforming how scholars read ancient clay tablets written in cuneiform, potentially unlocking countless forgotten secrets of the Hittite civilisation that once dominated Anatolia. The tool, named Palaeographicumfunctions as an extraordinarily sophisticated pattern-recognition system, automatically identifying individual variations in wedge-shaped characters…