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Gilgamesh

Aug 26 Blog

AI Unlocks Ancient Texts

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

While the Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the most famous ancient texts ever written and is available today in dozens of languages and editions, […]

Facsimile of Great Isaiah Scroll

Feb 4 Blog

Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

By: BAS Staff

A recent computer analysis of handwriting from the Great Isaiah Scroll—one of the longest and best preserved of the Dead Sea Scrolls—found the 54-column text was produced by two different scribes who apparently worked in shifts to complete the task.

Herculaneum scrolls

Oct 16 Blog

Herculaneum Scrolls Reveal New Secrets

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

The Herculaneum scrolls may be one of the most important sources of information on the ancient world ever discovered, yet they are practically unreadable, having […]

Jun 19 Blog

Telling a Tell with Artificial Intelligence

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

A team of computer scientists and archaeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has developed a new tool for identifying archaeological sites using artificial […]

translating Cuneiform

May 8 Blog

Translating Cuneiform with AI

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Assyriologists spend their entire careers translating cuneiform texts, yet today, hundreds of thousands of inscriptions written in the languages of this ancient script—the earliest in […]

Dec 14 Blog

Reading “Invisible” Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Christy Chapman and W. Brent Seales

Technology in the hands of scholars, conservators, and archaeologists alike has long been central to the successful preservation and analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls. […]

Sep 28 Blog

The Ruins That Remain

By: Dan Pioske

In Book 8 of the Periegesis, written by the ancient Greek historian Pausanias, we come across an extended description of the city of Megalopolis located […]

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