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AI has been used to translate ancient 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets into English, demonstrating a novel application of language models for decoding historical texts.
TabletCraft is an open-source system enabling bidirectional Akkadian-English neural machine translation with cuneiform rendering, allowing users to both read ancient tablets and compose new messages in cuneiform. Accepted to the C3NLP workshop at ACL 2026, it reports first published quantitative results for English-to-Akkadian translation.