Satellite images, Lidar… High-performance technical means are deployed to bring to light traces of ancient forgotten cities. Ray Winstone and Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). This article by Bernadette Arnaud is an extract from the file The Great Adventu
Old Persian was the colloquial language spoken in the Achaemenid empire, known from tablets and seals dating to between 600 and 300 BC. Circa 521 B.C. King Darius ordered the creation of a new alphabet, which is said to have been called the Aryan alphabet , and that it was used only for the actual i
To this day no one can say with absolute certainty whether the Hisarlik site on the north coast of Anatolia is the Homeric Troy or on the contrary it is another city, perhaps the Wilusa Hittite (the only written document found at the site is a cylinder with a Luwian inscription). In any case, when H
When artificial intelligence (AI) makes it possible to rediscover ancient historical treasures. Israeli researchers were able to piece together Babylonian writings marked on clay tablets using a deep learning model. Reconstructing illegible writings on clay tablets is now possible thanks to deep l