Researchers used AI to decode a Babylonian text lost for 1,000 years, revealing new details about life and culture in ancient ...

A team of researchers has compared how ancient Mesopotamians felt their emotions in the body by studying Akkadian texts from ...

These ancient texts were once unreadable. Now technology is decoding them. Burned, baked, or broken, many historic documents were once thought lost to time, but AI and imaging innovations are ...

These texts revealed that romantic kisses have been happening for 4,500 years in the ancient Middle East – not just 3,500 years ago, as a Bronze Age manuscript from South Asia had previously ...

Magical texts of the ancient Near East, Egypt and neighbouring regions are the focus of a new research group at the University of Würzburg. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing ...

More information: Embodied Emotions in Ancient Neo-Assyrian Texts Revealed by Bodily Mapping of Emotional Semantics, iScience ...

Developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia, an ancient region centered in modern-day Iraq and the surrounding regions, more than 5,000 years ago, cuneiform is not a language in itself.

A set of ancient texts burned by the volcanic eruption on Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. have been deciphered thanks to a team of researchers using AI. The nearly 2,000-year-old texts were unreadable ...

Reconstructing ancient texts. Computers have been used to categorize and analyse digitized texts for decades. But the current excitement comes from the use of neural networks, ...

Ancient Texts Reveal How Mesopotamians Felt Emotions—From Happiness in the Liver to Anger in the Feet Researchers found that ancient Mesopotamians associated body parts with emotions, just as we ...