New on the #ISAWNYU Library blog:

> Patrick Liu, a Latin student at the Dalton School ... reports on his summer internship experience with the ISAW Library on helping to develop a post-OCR correction dataset for Latin

https://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/interning-in-the-isaw-library-developing-an-error-correction-dataset-for-latin-texts

> Over time I became more familiar with these mistakes, almost like I learned the dialect of OCR errors. Seeing how letters and words were so easily bent or altered made me further appreciate the fragility of digital transference.

#ancientLanguage #OCR #Latin #classics

https://techinternetz.blogspot.com/2025/09/sanskrit-ancient-language-powering.html

Sanskrit: The Ancient Language Powering Modern AI Innovation

#Artificialintelligence #AI #sanskrit #ancientlanguage

https://techinternetz.blogspot.com/2025/09/sanskrit-ancient-language-powering.html?m=1

Sanskrit: The Ancient Language Powering Modern AI Innovation

#artificialintelligence #ai #sanskrit #ancientlanguage

https://techinternetz.blogspot.com/2025/09/sanskrit-ancient-language-powering.html?m=1

Sanskrit: The Ancient Language Powering Modern AI Innovation

#artificialintelligence #ai #sanskrit #ancientlanguage

Early evidence of writing found at La Peña del Castro, Spain

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking find at La Peña del Castro, an Iron Age settlement in La Ercina, León. They’ve unearthed one of the oldest known examples of writing in the region. A team from the University of León identified a Celtiberian alphabet inscription on a spindle whorl, a tool for textile production...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/02/early-evidence-of-writing-found-at-la-pena-del-castro/

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Ancient genomics reveal the origins of Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian languages

A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families’ origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists conducted this research...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/origins-of-italo-celtic-and-graeco-armenian-languages/

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Rare bilingual inscription discovered in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province

During a recent excavation in the village of Alqan, located in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk province, archaeologists uncovered a bilingual inscription featuring two lines of Thamudic script alongside one line in early Arabic...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/06/bilingual-inscription-in-saudi-arabia/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #semitic #alqan #philology #historicallinguistics #thamudic #ancientlanguage #linguistics

I love #kids. Always doing things their predecessors couldn’t. For the prize of $1 million he’s changed our knowledge of history.

“Farritor, then enrolled as a computer science major, learned Latin as a kid and used to spend hours in history museums, but he never considered the classics an especially lucrative pursuit. That was until he heard about the Vesuvius Challenge.”

#AI
#AncientHistory
#AncientLanguage #Scrolls

https://www.thefp.com/p/luke-farritor-vesuvius-challenge-scrolls-rome

The oldest known sentence in the #AncientLanguage of Canaanites has been decoded by at team of Israeli #archaeologists, unearthed at #TelLachish, an ancient city in the #Biblical #KingdomOfJudah.

Experts translated the comb to read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”

The landmark discovery provides evidence for the use of the #alphabet 3,700 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8NHg82wbsk

#Archeology #History #Bible via @BBCWorld