Deciphering the Past: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Translating Ancient Text

How could Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning improve methods and speed of translating ancient text?

Case Study: Cuneiform Text, 500,000 - 2 million discovered, only 30- 100,000 translated.

AI used before to speed up the process

Sources:

Research papers:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09292-5

https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/49/3/703/116160/Machine-Learning-for-Ancient-Languages-A-Survey

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-023-00362-5

https://www.ijict.edu.iq/index.php/ijict/article/view/265/124

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/new-frontier-ai-and-ancient-language-pedagogy/A63EF69F5FE5529F0F45FB1EB655A9F7

Book:

https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2019/08/digital-classical-philology-ancient.html

ai research

https://mudg.fly.dev/how can digital technology be used in the field of archaeology/linear