![]() Psycle have been given access to the extensive digital assets that Macquarie’s team has assembled, images and translations of the brilliantly-coloured pictures and inscriptions adorning the rock-cut tombs of the Beni Hassan site in Egypt’s Nile Valley, which tell the stories of daily life in Egypt dating as far back as five thousand years. Using Beni Hassan’s images to teach computers how to decode hieroglyphs Macquarie’s Department of Ancient History signed up as Principal Academic Partner for The Hieroglyphics Initiative and Dr Woods and Macquarie data architect Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton have spent the past six months working with Ubisoft’s developers Psycle, to help create the Workbench tool. “Ubisoft's Hieroglyphics Initiative is developing a machine learning based tool – the Workbench Tool - that will create a clear workflow to process images of hieroglyphs, identify signs and translate the glyphs, a bit like Google Translate does,” explains Dr Woods. The Hieroglyphics Initiative: Dr Alex Woods and Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton worked with game developers using Macquarie's extensive digital assets from Beni Hassan. She’s been developing a website to showcase the tombs at Beni Hassan in Egypt since 2016. Macquarie's experts heed the callįor Dr Alexandra Woods, a senior Egyptology lecturer at Macquarie, the project offered a great opportunity to build on existing Macquarie research. “We became convinced that we had our part to play in research efforts, putting our know-how and resources to History’s best interest,” Miazga explains. Ubisoft decided to use their expertise to help create a machine learning tool to translate ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and last year launched The Hieroglyphics Initiative, and put out an international call for scholars to help. ![]() Mystery of stolen Egyptian artefact cracked by hieroglyphs.Let's get that bread: How teenagers change language.The Rosetta Stone, captured in 1799 during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, was key to deciphering hieroglyphs but that slow process has not changed much in over 200 years. “While working on the game with Egyptologists, we’ve realised how difficult it is to unlock the secrets of that time,” says Ubisoft Project co-ordinator, Pierre Miazga. ![]() The designers engaged experts so they could include genuine hieroglyphics in the gameplay – and found it was a painstaking process. Welcome to Assassin’s Creed Origins, the tenth episode in Ubisoft’s blockbuster role-play video game series, hailed for its realistic scene setting and engaging gameplay. Hidden messages: The hieroglyphics from the tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hassan, Egypt, were used to build a tool that will helps scholars and students translate stories dating back thousands of years. The story involves abductions, murders and battles, and the main characters must decipher messages and codes hidden in hieroglyphics. An intriguing tale takes place in Cleopatra’s Egypt, set around a secret society called the Order of Ancients, plotting to control the throne. ![]()
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