# AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature

> Electronic Babylonian Library project team, 2023. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Conversation, May 2023, written by the eBL team at LMU.…

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# AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature

Electronic Babylonian Library project team, 2023.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Webpage0

## What it's used for here

The Conversation, May 2023, written by the eBL team at LMU. Reports about 1,500 joins in the project's five years against about 5,000 in the previous 150 years of Assyriology, a string-alignment algorithm modelled on bioinformatics sequence alignment, and a separate model trained on under 20,000 lines that resolved ambiguous sign readings with 98 per cent success. Used for the join counts and the project's own account of its methods.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The Kuyunjik collection fragments (British Museum K., Sm., Rm. and DT numbers)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/artifacts/ART0DEDQZ0V8QWY/the-kuyunjik-collection-fragments-british-museum-k-sm-rm-and)

ART

[The eBL project reports about 1,500 fragment joins in five years against about 5,000 in the previous 150 years, each…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDY2047S74/the-ebl-project-reports-about-1-500-fragment-joins-in-five)

Evidence

EVD

[The matcher works on transliterations: three Maqlû manuscripts were found among about 27,000 transliterated fragments…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEEAXQEF6RJ/the-matcher-works-on-transliterations-three-maqlu)

Evidence

EVD

[Enrique Jiménez starts the electronic Babylonian Library project at Munich](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPG548EGZ/enrique-jimenez-starts-the-electronic-babylonian-library)

EVT

[The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)

The mystery article

MYS

[Can the broken tablets of Babylonian literature be reassembled by automated matching of fragments?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3VBZYJY/can-the-broken-tablets-of-babylonian-literature-be)

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## Cite it

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Electronic Babylonian Library project team (2023). AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature. https://theconversation.com/ai-is-helping-us-read-ancient-mesopotamian-literature-205091
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[Find it at theconversation.com](https://theconversation.com/ai-is-helping-us-read-ancient-mesopotamian-literature-205091)

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