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Tech News: Machine translation for cuneiform tablets

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An AI model has been developed to automatically translate Akkadian text written in cuneiform into English. Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform and dating back as far as 3,400 BCE, have been found by archaeologists, far more than could easily be translated by the limited number of experts who can read them.

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