Comment on Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)parentComments−johngossman7moThere are true stories that don't involve asteroids but are just as compelling. Anything by Irving Finkel, such as:https://youtu.be/LUxFzh8r384−natmaka7moThere is software working at- finding correspondences (solve parts of the puzzle) and reconstructing at least part of certain documents ( https://arkeonews.net/new-ai-tool-fragmentarium-brings-ancie... , https://virtualcuneiform.org/ )- somewhat 'infering' some missing parts ( https://voices.uchicago.edu/ochre/project/deepscribe/ ),- 'normalizing' (find the 'standard' form) of glyphs ( https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/03/ai-models-make-prec... )
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There are true stories that don't involve asteroids but are just as compelling. Anything by Irving Finkel, such as:
https://youtu.be/LUxFzh8r384
There is software working at
- finding correspondences (solve parts of the puzzle) and reconstructing at least part of certain documents ( https://arkeonews.net/new-ai-tool-fragmentarium-brings-ancie... , https://virtualcuneiform.org/ )
- somewhat 'infering' some missing parts ( https://voices.uchicago.edu/ochre/project/deepscribe/ ),
- 'normalizing' (find the 'standard' form) of glyphs ( https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/03/ai-models-make-prec... )