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4,000-year-old texts to reach new audiences in digital project
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May 8, 2026 · 24s listen
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Researchers are transforming access to some of the world's oldest written records using digital technology and multilingual tools. As part of the project, called Access to Cuneiform Texts (CDLI‑ACT), researchers have developed an Arabic digital interface to allow access to cuneiform texts—written on clay tablets across ancient Mesopotamia over more than three millennia.
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