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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Akkadian

A selection of Akkadian cuneiform translated with AI. (courtesy, Gai Gutherz)
June 17, 2023, 9:57 am
Groundbreaking AI project translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform at push of a button
‘Google Translate’-like program for Akkadian cuneiform will enable tens of thousands of digitized but unread tablets to be translated to English. Accuracy is debatable
By Melanie Lidman
Two juvenile skeletons lie with their heads at opposite ends at the North Tombs Cemetery at Egypt's Amarna site. (Mary Shepperson/Courtesy of The Amarna Project)
June 9, 2017, 11:54 am
In ancient mass graves, archaeologists find child slaves of biblical Egypt
New findings at Amarna, the capital of an eccentric ‘monotheistic’ king, indicate a disposable juvenile labor force. Could there be a connection to the Hebrews?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The cover of Shirley Graetz's 'Gilgamesh' series, about the Mesopotamian demigod, with artwork by Uriel Zohar (Courtesy Shirley Graetz)
June 30, 2016, 2:34 pm
The demigod Gilgamesh comes to life for young readers
Cuneiform expert Shirley Graetz put her academic skills to work in a Hebrew-language chapter book for kids
By Jessica Steinberg
A clay tablet from 572 BCE, the earliest known text documenting the Judean exile in Babylonia, now on display at the Bible Lands Museum (photo credit: Ardon Bar-Hama courtesy of The Bible Lands Museum)
February 1, 2015, 5:48 pm
‘By the rivers of Babylon’ exhibit breathes life into Judean exile
Never-before-showcased clay tablets documenting the first diaspora go on display at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum
By Ilan Ben Zion
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