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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. is there a form of record keeping that will be by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    truly eternal? I mean what media is not subject to destruction?

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  2. hold on one second by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think these guys need to check the copyright laws before they go copying some guys work.

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  3. CNN Headlines today by shawnmelliott · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Today Judge Jamison heard opening arguments in the case King Tut vs Digital Tablet INC in which King Tut accuses Digital Tablet of making a circumvention device according to the DMCA.

    Initial arguments attempted to show that rampant pirating of ancient works, mathematics and embalming techniques have hurt King Tut and Egypt due to the digitizing of the ancient Tablets