A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia
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A 4,000-year-old object stored in Denmark may preserve one of humanity’s earliest written traces of everyday administration, and its silence lasted millennia
Source: Firm-Blackberry-9162
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Everyone just loved to bitch about copper
I am glad they are digitizing, translating the cuneiform tablets and making them available. It seems that AI could do a first pass, then that could be checked by the few actual readers. AI could also find commonalities between them and hopefully help sitch together a better view of history.
It would be awesome if Gilgamesh was an actual person and may be one of those spells could held today.
Love this kind of project. Digitizing and translating these tablets means we’re finally hearing everyday voices from 4,000 years ago, not just kings and warriors. Even if AI only does a rough first pass, it massively speeds things up and helps spot patterns humans might miss. More of this, please. Turning old clay into new knowledge is exactly what we should be doing.
First excel spread shit! Some poor secretary with her chisel and hammer!!