Abstract: Analyzing ancient manuscripts and unknown scripts presents a very difficult problem, because of document deterioration and linguistic differences. Recent progress in Artificial Intelligence ...

History is replete with great rulers and great scholars, but it is rare that one individual should combine both characteristics. I want to tell you about one of them, who I consider to be the greatest ...

March 25 is National Tolkien Reading Day. This year on that very day I came up with an idea to create simple transciber - from english alphabet to elvish. It is not a translator though. I'm pretty ...

A Saudi-French archaeological team has discovered the oldest known inscription in the Arabic alphabet at a site located near Najran in Saudi Arabia, according to a report in Arab News. The finding is ...

A group of Swiss and Dutch archaeologists have announced the rediscovery of a 29-meter-long (95 ft) Luwian hieroglyphic inscription that supposedly narrates the tales of mysterious “Sea People” and a ...

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Guwahati: The state archaeology directorate and Kamrup administration are making all efforts to preserve the three Kanai Boroshi Bowa rock inscriptions located in North Guwahati of which one dating ...