The Deep Past Challenge asks a bold question: Can AI decode 4,000-year-old business records?

In this competition, you will help decode the everyday business records of ancient Assyrian merchants. Using data from 8,000 cuneiform texts, your goal is to build a translation system for Old Assyrian. Thousands more like them lie unread in museum drawers around the world.

Your work can help bring their voices back into the story of humanity.