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roryirvinetoday at 6:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

There's inevitably been quite a bit of research in using LLMs to help decipher cuneiform, but it's still at a fairly early stage. Good overview here:

https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mesopotamia/202...

"Artificial intelligence can therefore provide researchers with a significant support, helping them link together texts that mention the same individual, a geographical site, or a word within a large digitised corpus. But we are still far from machine decipherment of texts."