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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

cuneiform tablets

Illustrative: People at the Evyatar outpost in the West Bank, June 22, 2023. (Flash90)
June 27, 2023, 1:23 pm
Daily Briefing June 27: Reports from Evyatar & Turmus Ayya; proof of David’s kingdom?
Settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon describes life at the repopulated outpost and conversations with bereaved Palestinians; Melanie Lidman on AI to read millennia-old cuneiform
By ToI Staff
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
Ali Asghar Mounesan (C), Iran's Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, speaks to journalists while viewing Achaemenid-era clay tablets on display at Iran's National Museum in the capital Tehran on October 2, 2019 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
October 3, 2019, 2:25 am
Iran displays ancient clay tablets, returned by US, from empire that freed Jews
Restitution of some of the archaeological finds has been blocked due to court case initiated by American survivors of 1997 Hamas terror attack in Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Amanda Weiss, director of the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, with a 2,600-year-old clay tablet bearing the name "Benayahu ben Netanyahu" which is being loaned to the Prime Minister's Office for the coming year, August 21, 2018 (GPO)
August 22, 2018, 5:18 pm
Museum loans prime minister 2,600-year-old ‘Netanyahu tablet’
Ancient cuneiform Babylonian artifact bearing name ‘Benayahu ben Netanyahu’ will be shown to visiting dignitaries
By ToI Staff
A 4,000-year-old Assyrian tablet is the first evidence of surrogacy in infertility. (Istanbul Archaeology Museum)
November 12, 2017, 9:05 pm
4,000-year-old prenup pushes for surrogacy in case of infertility
Cuneiform tablet calls for a contractual sex slave to be freed after a son’s birth — and would have prevented the bitter rivalry between biblical Hagar and Sarah
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A view of Tema, as it was known in the Bible, in northwestern Saudi Arabia (Courtesy Madain Saleh/Wikimedia Commons)
August 4, 2016, 12:53 am
In Saudi Arabia, Jewish sites with ancient resonance beckon
For now, Israelis are not allowed into the kingdom, and Jews are at best grudgingly admitted. But with ties just possibly warming, a Jewish history dating back millennia might soon be more accessible
By Jessica Steinberg
This undated photo provided by the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem shows tablets with cuneiform writing, one of the world's earliest scripts, on display in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Avi Noam, Bible Lands Museum)
February 12, 2015, 10:44 am
Ancient tablets in Jerusalem fuel debate on looting
2,500-year-old cuneiform artifacts from southern Iraq are earliest written evidence of the Biblical exile of the Judeans
By Daniel Estrin
Shirley Graetz's debut novel about life in the Assyrian age (Courtesy Shirley Graetz)
October 24, 2013, 12:43 pm
Life in tablet form
Jerusalemite Shirley Graetz talks about ‘She Wrote on Clay,’ her debut coming-of-age novel about a girl who becomes a scribe in Assyrian times
By Jessica Steinberg
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