Researchers Use AI to Reconstruct 3,000-Year-Old Babylonian Hymn
The Hymn of Babylon had been lost for over 2,000 years—until researchers used AI to piece it together from 30 clay fragments.
Researchers have used AI to reconstruct a long-lost 3,000-year-old Bablyonian poem.
The team from LMU Munich and the University of Baghdad used AI to piece together the Hymn of Babylon from 30 clay fragments.
They told Decrypt that AI is becoming “indispensable” to researchers seeking to reassemble ancient texts from surviving fragments.
Researchers from LMU Munich and the University of Baghdad have used AI to reconstruct a Babylonian poem that had been lost for over 2,000 years.
Named the Hymn of Babylon, the text—which praises Babylon and the god Marduk—was written 3,000 years ago and last studied in 100 BC.
According to the team behind its rediscovery, it has been pieced together from 30 clay fragments that have been excavated over the years, with artificial intelligence being used to join the dots.