How AI could help translate the written language of ancient civilizations
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

Twenty-five centuries ago, the `paperwork` of Persia`s Achaemenid Empire was recorded on clay tablets-tens of thousands of which were discovered in 1933 in modern-day Iran by archaeologists from the University of Chicago`s Oriental Institute. For decades, researchers painstakingly studied and translated these ancient documents by hand, but this manual deciphering process is very difficult, slow and prone to errors.