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The Hechinger Report stories covered a tumultuous year in education news

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Dear Reader, Saying it’s been a wild year in higher education news seems like the understatement of the century.

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Unraveling Ancient Mysteries: AI's Role in Decoding Millennia-Old Texts

Anthropology.net

Delving into the enigmatic world of cuneiform clay tablets, researchers have harnessed AI technology to crack the code of ancient Babylonian literature. Led by Professor Enrique Jiménez 1 , the Fragmentarium project at LMU's Institute of Assyriology aims to digitally piece together fragments of the Gilgamesh epic and other Babylonian texts. Dating back over 4,000 years, these manuscripts, written in Sumerian and Akkadian languages, have long intrigued scholars but survived only in fragmente