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Scientists Reconstructed a Babylonian Hymn Lost for Over 1,000 Years

created: July 7, 2025, noon | updated: July 8, 2025, 7:57 p.m.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. Legend has it that Noah tucked away Babylonian cuneiform writings on clay tablets before the great flood over 4,000 years ago. Researchers just discovered a tablet writing in the same style, a hymn written in honor of Babylon that was lost a millennium ago. “It was written by a Babylonian who wanted to praise his city,” Jiménez said.

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