NPEO

NPEO combines AI with photographs of Palmyrene inscriptions to produce open epigraphic results — launched 23 April 2026, drawing on unreleased field imagery, a March 2026 inscription release, and NEWPALMYRA's Flickr community archive.

The New Palmyra Epigraphic Objects (NPEO) Project is Born

23 April 2026 — NEWPALMYRA launched NPEO to connect AI with the photographic record of Palmyrene inscriptions.

NPEO is:

#ai × (photos of inscriptions) = results

We are building an open pipeline that connects machine-readable inscription data with the photographic record of Palmyra — field documentation, community contributions, and newly released corpora.

Sources

• 🏛 Palmyra images from @basselkhartabil — Bassel Khartabil began documenting Palmyra in 2005; a body of unreleased inscription photography anchors this work.
• 📜 1,134 inscriptions released in March 2026 — a published corpus feeding transcription, translation, and linked open data.
• 📸 NEWPALMYRA's 3,000+ Flickr community archive — reference photos contributed over years of community mirroring and uploads.

Tags

#newpalmyra #inscriptions #epigraphy #palmyra

More on methods, datasets, and how to contribute will be posted here as NPEO develops.