An Oxford Egyptologist wrote one sentence in hieratic, the handwriting of ancient Egypt. No AI model can read it. HieraticBench measures how close they are.
HieraticBench. Can AI read ancient Egyptian handwriting? HieraticBench v0.1 Leaderboard Dataset Method Join Open menu Claude Opus 5.5 said Not a known writing system . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Not a real writing system . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Hieratic, Demotic, Meroitic, Pahlavi or Elbasan. None confirmed . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Amenemhat, “Amun is in front” . Wrong. Claude Haiku 4.5 said Urdu, “One should learn every day” . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Pahawh Hmong . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Kharosthi . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Old Uyghur . Wrong. Claude Sonnet 5.5 s
An Oxford Egyptologist wrote one sentence in hieratic, the handwriting of ancient Egypt. No AI model can read it. HieraticBench measures how close they are.
HieraticBench. Can AI read ancient Egyptian handwriting? HieraticBench v0.1 Leaderboard Dataset Method Join Open menu Claude Opus 5.5 said Not a known writing system . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Not a real writing system . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Hieratic, Demotic, Meroitic, Pahlavi or Elbasan. None confirmed . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Amenemhat, “Amun is in front” . Wrong. Claude Haiku 4.5 said Urdu, “One should learn every day” . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Pahawh Hmong . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Kharosthi . Wrong. Claude Fable 5.1 said Old Uyghur . Wrong. Claude Sonnet 5.5 s
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