"Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?
"Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?New program can translate ancient Biblical script. A new computer program has quickly deciphered a written language last used in Biblical times—possibly opening the door to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood, scientists announced last week. Created by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the program automatical
An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists (Published 2006)
A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone. But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and
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Workings of an ancient computer - Boing Boing
