Since 2018, Enrique Jiménez, professor of ancient Near, Eastern literature at the Institute of Assyriology at LMU and his group have been working to digitize every cuneiform tablet still in existence.

AI takes care of deciphering ancient damaged inscriptions and difficult-to-read ancient characters, doing in seconds what would take an expert hours. A research team at Ludwig Maximilian University ...

Pre-dating the “Iliad,” the “Odyssey” and the five Books of Moses by more than a thousand years, the “Epic of Gilgamesh” is the oldest piece of literature ever uncovered. Its discovery in 1853 in the ...