New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

Australian researchers create a new data storage technique that uses nanometer precision to store data in ternary format.

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Around the world, around 100,000 tablets have so far been digitized, of perhaps 500,000 lying — often unread — in museums. The team is developing neural networks to recognize cuneiform signs ...

Photograph of proto-cuneiform tablet showing signs discussed in the article. (Colour image of drawing of Fig. 4 in the article - Ref_ Englund 1994 ATU 5_ pl. 71).

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

A team of researchers at Flinders University has adopted a cuneiform-inspired concept to develop a cutting-edge method for storing bits and bytes on a futuristic, polymer-based ...

Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform ...