Major Breakthtrough – Ancient Herculaneum Scroll Deciphered For The First Time
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – After almost 2,000 years, the first full word from the Herculaneum scroll has been deciphered by a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska. On the morning of August 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii. At the time of the destruction, […]
Artificial Intelligence And Clay Tablets: Not Yet A Perfect Match
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are often popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for researching documents in the oldest scripts. Credit: Trustees of the British Museum Are we better off leaving the deciphering of ancient texts to computers from now on? […]
AI Is Helping Researchers To Read Ancient Mesopotamian Literature
AncientPages.com – [… who s]aw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all […] [… who] saw the Deep, […] the country, [who] knew […], […] all […] Reconstruction of the manuscript K.4981+ from nine discrete fragments previously transliterated in the Fragmentarium. Author provided This first quote represents the beginning of the Epic of Gilgamesh as […]
Surprising Patterns In Earth’s Biological Mᴀss Extinctions Detected By AI
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Charles Darwin’s landmark opus “On the Origin of the Species” ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution: “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Unravels Secrets Of 22,000 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How should we live when we know we must die? The first work of world literature, the Gilgamesh epic poses this question. More than 4,000 years ago, Gilgamesh set out on a quest for immortality. Like all Babylonian literature, the saga has survived only in fragments. Nevertheless, scholars have managed […]
First AI-Based Method For Dating Archaeological Remains Developed By Researchers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains. Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history. Credit: CC0/Unsplash The standard […]
Machine-Learning Model Can Detect Hidden Aussie Rock Art
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have developed a way to detect the presence of rock art in remote, hard-to-reach areas in Australia’s rugged landscapes using Machine Learning (ML) methods. Co-led by Dr. Andrea Jalandoni, a digital archaeologist from Griffith University’s Center for Social and Cultural Research, the study used hundreds of images of rock art found […]