Re: Babylonian text missing for 1,000 years deciphered with AI

On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:32:56 GMT, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

   30 fragments were known, but it was not known that they fit together
to form one text?
 
         ----- Is this it?

It seems it is the application of an AI supported platform that
accelerated the process of identifying existing fragments of text as
belonging to the same item.

From:

<https://www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu/structure/central-university-
administration/communications-and-media-relations/press-room/press-
release/lmu-professor-enrique-jimenez-discovered-hymn-to-babylon.html>

"In the Electronic Babylonian Library Platform, Enrique Jiménez is
digitizing all cuneiform text fragments that have been discovered
worldwide to date and using artificial intelligence to decipher fragments
that belong together. “Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to
identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn – a
process that would formerly have taken decades,” says Jiménez, Professor
of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at LMU’s Institute of Assyriology.
Thanks to these additional texts, the scholars were able to completely
decipher the hymn of praise on the clay tablet, parts of which were
missing".



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David Entwistle