The ruins of the ancient City of Babylon, south of Baghdad, Iraq. “Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn – a process that ...

More than a thousand years before the first telescopes, Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of planets across the night sky using simple arithmetic. But a newly translated text reveals that ...

For the first time in three millennia, a Babylonian hymn that survived only as damaged cuneiform has been heard again as music, reconstructed with the help of artificial intelligence. Researchers ...

In this article, two early Old Babylonian text groups are published. One group has Ea-dāpin as its protagonist, and the other Ibbi-Ilabrat. Both text groups are part of the so-called "Mananâ texts", ...

The previously unknown hymn of praise comes from the period around 1000 BCE. LMU Professor Enrique Jiménez used AI to find 30 other related manuscripts. In the course of a collaboration with the ...

A poetic text nearly 3,000 years old has just resurfaced, bringing back to life a voice lost since antiquity. A Babylonian hymn celebrating the grandeur of the city of Babylon has been reconstructed ...

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Beyond the city and its pastures, the hymn also reveals new details about the lives of women in Babylon AN ANCIENT hymn lost for 4,000 years on a Babylonian tablet has finally been deciphered using ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...

THE present volume is the first of two which Mr. Thompson intends to devote to a study of the evil spirits and devils of Babylonia, and it will, we believe, be welcomed by readers of many classes. We ...