Google Arts & Culture
Using AI to play, learn, and decode the world’s oldest languages.
Google Arts & Culture set out to make the study of Ancient Egyptian more accessible to a wider audience. The aim was to turn a traditionally academic subject into something engaging, educational, and open to all.
We created a digital platform that allowed people to interact with hieroglyphs, learn how translation works, and contribute to an evolving machine learning model. The experience was built around three clear user paths: play, learn, and work.
Developed a globally accessible platform for exploring and experimenting with hieroglyphs
Created an animated introduction setting the tone for the Google Arts & Culture experience
Designed interactive learning experience to introduce the translation process to school children
Created three interactive modes tailored for different levels of engagement, including design and creation of Learn content explaining hieroglyphs and the translation process to Stage 1 and Stage 2 children
Built custom tools to generate structured training data for machine learning
Open-sourced the academic workbench and enabled its adoption by global research institutions
Combined AI, UX, and educational design to bring ancient language to life in a new way
Fulfilled the open source promises that had been made to make the tools and data available to everyone
