Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that's a bilingual text, like the Rosetta ...
Humanity has decoded Egyptian hieroglyphics, reconstructed dead languages from a single stone slab and used AI to recover burned papyrus from Vesuvius. The assumption is that given enough time, any ...
A new AI-powered tool is helping researchers crack one of history’s oldest writing systems — and it could completely transform the study of ancient civilizations. Called “Palaeographicum,” the tool ...
From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries. In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto ...
Deciphering the Rosetta Stone -- Reading a text: the Egyptian scripts of the Rosetta Stone -- Towards reading a cultural code: the uses of writing in ancient Egypt -- The future: further codes to ...
Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call ‘Read-y Grammarian’. Our goal was to reconstruct the highly fragmentary text of the Singapore Stone, ...
Luke Farritor is the kind of young genius who makes you wonder if there’s a secret formula to being at the right place at the right time. With a unique combination of computer science smarts and a ...
The telegraph without wire -- An extension of mouth : how the bàtá talks -- Other voices : the Omele Méta and the Ìyáàlù Dùndún -- Speaking in codes : Enà Bàtá -- Epilogue: Bàtá is the mouthpiece of ...