Going long on this one. ML has already [helped decode Akkadian](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240511) and we have a really, really good amount of Linear A for a language we can’t decipher.

Agree !

@mqudsi looking at the linked paper, ML has helped run OCR the clay tablets, not decipher the language itself:

> Automating the process of making cuneiform text editions requires a pipeline which deals with each of the following three problems with different AI models: (1) extraction and visual recognition of 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional representations of cuneiform signs; (2) automatic transliteration and segmentation; (3) translation and/or annotation. In our project, we offer a solution for the second problem.