AN ANCIENT hymn lost for 4,000 years on a Babylonian tablet has finally been deciphered using artificial intelligence (AI).

The only characters we do know about are Odysseus (Matt Damon), Telemachus (Tom Holland), Penelope (Anne Hathaway). Other ...

The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than ...

A rare marble sarcophagus found in Israel depicts a mythological drinking game where Hercules loses to Dionysus, according to the IAA. Historians say it represents death as a beginning.

Revolutionizing the Study of Ancient Civilizations. The Nazca Lines represent one of the first successful uses of AI in archaeology. The lines, which were created by scraping away the top layer of ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

AI Revealed a New Trove of Massive Ancient Symbols The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to ancient Nazca people and their rituals. A geoglyph of an orca whale with a knife in the Nazca Desert ...

Team leader Youssef Nader and two other team members used AI to reveal 15 columns of text from an ancient scroll buried by volcanic debris from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

AI analysis of Dead Sea Scroll fragments suggests some of the ancient manuscripts are up to 100 years older than once thought. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory ...