The project, which is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel, was described in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
And the good news for archaeologists worldwide is the technology is not limited to Akkadian.
Dr Gordin said: “The model can be trained on other types of ancient corpora.
“Such training needs to be done with similar formats at the moment, thus, ancient languages similar to Akkadian in form and function are better suited than later types of languages and texts.
“But we are considering how to make further use of this algorithm as a more general historical tool for textual criticism – namely, it will be more open for uploading different formats.
source: express.co.uk