Babylon’s text that is missing 1000 years decrypted AI

The team of ancient literature experts decipher the mesopotamain text, which was missing for more than 1000 years. Engraved on clay tablets, The anthem to Babylon Describes the ancient “all its greatness” megaches and gives new insights on the daily lives of people who lived there. The text is described in detail in a study published in the magazine Iraq;

Cuuniform tablet with newly discovered anthem. Credit: LMU/Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archeology at the University of Baghdad, who received permission from the Iraq Museum and the State Council of ancient and Heritage.

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Mesopotamia was established around 2000. Pr. BC, Babylon was once the largest city in the world. The ruins of Babylon are the UNESCO World Heritage Site, about 52 miles behind the Iraqi capital Bagdad. At its height, the city was a cultural center inspired by written works, which are still part of our world heritage. Religious text called Enuma Elish or Babylon creation epic detailed the creation of the universe and the carpet of Marduk, the Chief City God. The Hammurabi Code is one of the oldest surviving legal systems and includes the concept of “innocent until the concept of guilt”.

Babylon’s texts were primarily formed by an ancient writing system called Tsuniform on clay tablets. Many of these tablets survived only in small fragments. One of the goals of the University of Baghdad University in Iraq and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in Germany was to decipher and preserve hundreds of tsuniform tablets included in the SIPPAR Library. This collection of texts was unveiled at Shamash Temple in the ancient Sippar, Iraq. Legends also say that Noah, the Old Testament, hid the Sippar tablets before boarding his ark when the flood waters came.

[ Related: 6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing. ]

“Written by a Babylonian who wants to praise your city”

In the electronic Babylonian Library platform, the co -author and assistant ENRIQUE Jiménez is digitized by all the world -finding fragments of the world. With the help of artificial intelligence (ai), it combines the fragments that belong together.

“Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to set 30 other manuscripts belonging to the anthem-procese discovered, which would have been a need for decades,” Jiménez said in a statement.

With these additional texts, the team was able to completely decipher this ancient Honor Hymn. In it, they found some new insights on the Babylon city society and believe that Babylon’s song was very common.

“The song was copied by children at school. It is unusual that such a popular text was not known to us before,” said Jiménez. The song of Triumph or Paean is quick, starting with the beginning of the first millennium BC and consisting of 250 lines.

“It was written by Babylon, who wanted to praise his city,” said Jiménez. “The author describes the buildings of the city, but also how the waters of the Euphrates bring in the spring and the green is the fields. It is even more impressive because the surviving Mesopotamian literature spreads according to its descriptions of its natural phenomena.”

One of the interesting new discoveries involves new information about Babylon women – many were princes. Hymns also describe residents as respectful foreigners.

Read the passage

The lines below are from the newly discovered anthem describing the Euphrate River. At that time, the city was on the river banks.

Euphrates is its river set by wise Lord Disco -mud –

It extinguishes Lea, saturated with cane,

Does not satisfy their water to the lagoon and the sea,

Its fields are intimidating with herbs and flowers,

Its meadows, wonderfully blooming, sprouts barley,

Of which the rags were collected, stacked,

The herds and flocks lie on the green pastures,

Property and shine – what is the right humanity –

Are donated, multiplied and regional.

Continuing progress can lead to better translations of this ancient city celebration.

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