The key to cracking long-dead languages?

The key to cracking long-dead languages? British Museum New imaging techniques, combined with advanced machine vision tools, are helping to transform efforts to decipher ancient languages like Proto-Elamite Tablets from some of the world’s oldest civilisations hold rich details about life thousands of years ago, but few people today can read them. Jacob Dahl Algorithms trained to recognise features on ancient tablets are helping researchers to match them to the original stone seals that made them “It’s actually rather astonishing how interesting it is when you find a human mind across millennia, where it is like talking to them on the telephone,” he says. British Museum New imaging techniques, combined with advanced machine vision tools, are helping to transform efforts to decipher ancient languages like Proto-Elamite Digitisation is also helping researchers to piece together links between texts scattered in collections around the world. Sometimes you can tell when the person writing the document has worked something out and then written something over the top.” The Trustees of the British Museum Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed thousands of tablets containing some of the world's earliest written languages Pagé-Perron hopes that machines will eventually be able to translate more complex Sumerian tablets, and other languages like Akkadian.