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

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 ...

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.

SAN FRANCISCO — A 200-year-long drought 4,200 years ago may have killed off the ancient Sumerian language, one geologist says. Because no written accounts explicitly mention drought as the reason for ...

Around 4000 years ago, in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Ancient Mesopotamia developed the first written language of the world. On view until June 2020, the “Ancient Mesopotamia ...

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

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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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of ...