Engineering students at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University are employing Mask Language Modeling to read and translate damaged, centuries-old Hebrew & Aramaic inscriptions. The AI technique enables damaged content to be reconstructed more efficiently. See findings of their Embible model.

https://www.jns.org/israeli-university-uses-ai-to-decipher-ancient-hebrew-aramaic-texts/

https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/publications/embible-reconstruction-of-ancient-hebrew-and-aramaic-texts-using-

https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.56/