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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.

2 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. The First Post by Haiku+4+U · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gives me pleasure! I won the race to be the first!

  2. Re:The Summer of Men In Black 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish I could wiggle my cock up Jeff's huge jewish nostrails and come vigorously.