Project Akhet is designed to utilize the latest AI methods to recognize Ancient Egyptian texts

Contact: humonen@airi.net

Current information and updates: https://imak.ai/projects/ancient-egypt

Models

• nllb-translation/ — Middle Egyptian (hieroglyphs/transliteration) to English/German translation, weights on Hugging Face.

Citation

@inproceedings{humonen2026human,
  title={Human-in-the-Loop Egyptology: A System for Ancient Egyptian Text Study},
  author={Humonen, Innokentiy and Golyadkin, Maksim and Rubanova, Valeria and Alexandrova, Ekaterina and Loktionov, Alexandre A and Makarov, Ilya},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2026}
}