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5000 year-old Cuneiform tablets Go Digital

Posted by Hemos on from the preserve-the-past dept.

purduephotog writes "In an effort to preserve and expose scholars around the world to rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint project between the University of California and the Max Planck Institute have photographed and digitized around 60,000 tablets. An overview is available at ABCNews, while the main site can be found at at UCLA." The ironic part is whether the digitized versions will last/be usable longer then the clay tablets.

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  1. Re:Uh oh... by RevRigel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not to nitpick (well, actually, yes, to nitpick), but the Nam-shub of Enki was the cure for Snow Crash, as it was a 'me' that had originally caused the differentiation of language amongst humans. Snow Crash reverted people to their ancient state, in which they were in a lower state of consciousness and communicated using 'intrinsic' human language. Enki created the Nam-shub to allow humanity to grow.