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Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?

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The Bronze Age has never looked stronger

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Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origins of Basque language

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Tutankhamun's Meteoric Iron Dagger

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50 years ago, an artist exhibited an invented Iron Age civilization

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Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is unearthed near Cairo

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Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone

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The ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ is not the oldest surviving work of literature

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Two hundred years ago, the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secrets of ancient Egypt

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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3400 Years Ago

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The messages that survived civilisation's collapse

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Ancient Roman soldier carved a phallus with a personal insult in this stone

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Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script?

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Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research

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The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories

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Study sheds new light on Tutankhamun’s mysterious dagger ‘born’ from meteorite

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The Maxims of Ptahhotep (circa 2350 BC)

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Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us

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The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found

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A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems

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Amateur archaeologist in Switzerland unearths 2k-year-old Roman dagger

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How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets

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How to Read “Gilgamesh” (2019)

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Building a Theban Lattice Stool

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Roman priest’s exceptionally well-preserved remains found in Pompeii

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The Worst Businessman of the 18th Century BC (2018)

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Toledo’s Last Swordmakers

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The Babylonians used Pythagorean ideas long before Pythagoras

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Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval

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Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first market more than 3k years ago

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Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research

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Vesuvius ancient eruption rescuer identified at Herculaneum, says expert

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A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019)

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Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’

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How to write cuneiform

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Who Invented the Alphabet?

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Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough

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Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues?

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Urban Gilgamesh: What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city

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1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound

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Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq

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A photo archive hidden inside a limestone mine

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5,000-year-old sword discovered by archaeology student at a Venetian monastery

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Board Games of the Ancient World

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The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)

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How do you crack the code to a lost ancient script?

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How to Read “Gilgamesh”

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“Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site

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Ancient Romans Used Molten Iron to Repair Streets Before Vesuvius Erupted

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The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

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Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4k-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt

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Why Do So Many Egyptian Statues Have Broken Noses?

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The Alter Bible

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How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian

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A time capsule in an Austrian salt mine

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Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden

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Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years

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What is Money? (1913)

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132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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A transcriber on the Isle of Man can decipher almost anything

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Ancient kids’ toys have been hiding in the archaeological record

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A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots

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Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir

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Rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek warrior

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Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs

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Pliny the Elder May Have Been Found 2,000 Years Later

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An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry

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Don’t Fall for Babylonian Trigonometry Hype

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After a century failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines

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Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine

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The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World

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The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams

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King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms

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New example of rare Etruscan writing found

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The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Letters to the Editor: Misleading Mathematicians [pdf]

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What is money? (1913)

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The History of Board Games

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The Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago

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A Roman Glass Gaming Die

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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads

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Archaeologists find intact medieval gauntlet

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Cracking the code of Linear B

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The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock

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The Tale of Daniel

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Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden

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A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002)

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Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found

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Medieval game pieces emerge from the ruins of a German castle

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The complete Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BC)

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The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021)

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Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (2020)

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