Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in 20+ languages including Irish, Hungarian, Mandarin and Swedish.

We are continuing our list of examples of isolated or extinct languages with Sumerian that is one of the earliest written languages which was in use in Mesopotamia. Many argue about the Sumerian ...

Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

Filmmakers at Trinity College Dublin have banded together to release a world’s first: a film performed entirely in the ...

The realm of artificial intelligence (AI) has been making considerable strides in the field of language translation, particularly with ancient languages. The latest feat in this realm is the ...

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A renowned Turkish assyriologist has been shedding light on extinct languages for over 56 years. Veysel Donbaz, who retired from working as a manager of cuneiform archive department in Istanbul's ...

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...