AI Transcends Ancient Language Barriers, Empowering Researchers

Researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to translate ancient texts and languages into English, including ancient Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The lack of a large amount of data poses a challenge, but AI models have been trained using available examples. The project aims to make ancient languages more accessible and is starting with the translation of Akkadian into English.