A new tool translates 4000-year old stories using machine learning

Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs over four millennia ago to engrave and record their stories. Today, only a select group of people know how to read or interpret those inscriptions. To read and decipher the ancient hieroglyphic writing, researchers and scholars have been using the Rosetta Stone, an irregularly shaped black granite stone. In 2017, game developer Ubisoft launched an initiative to use AI and machine learning to understand the written language of the Pharoahs. The initiative brought researchers from Australia's Macquarie University and Google's Art and Culture division togther.