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3D Scans Of Ancient Tablets

Posted by timothy on from the less-crumbly dept.

clonebarkins writes "The BBC is reporting on a new project to create 3D scans of ancient tablets written in cuneiform. They are using software from Kestrel 3D. Just wait till Project Gutenberg gets a hold of these!"

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  1. Oldest Dupe! by purduephotog · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/05 /17/184237 (tho that doesn't work right now) but the text was, oddly enough, submitted by me ;)

    5000 year-old Cuneiform tablets Go Digital
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D02/0 5/17/1842 37

    [0]purduephotog writes "In an effort to preserve and expose scholars
    around the world to [1]rapidly plundered historical texts, a joint
    project between the University of California and the Max Planck
    Institute have [2]photographed and digitized around 60,000 tablets.
    [3]An overview is available at ABCNews, while the main site can be
    found at [2]at UCLA." The ironic part is whether the digitized versions
    will last/be usable longer then the clay tablets.=20
    Links
    0. mailto:hirsch@inorbit.com
    1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/11/sumer ian/
    2. http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/
    3. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020517_716.html