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The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It. In the 1850s, #cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-worlds-oldest-writing-system-remained-unsolved-until-four-scholars-raced-decipher-it-180985954/
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The number of CC-BY-SA #cuneiform #tablets just got bigger by 44. Also having #IIIF manifests and #3D/PLYs. Also the first time that Luis Sáenz as an assyriologist collected and prepared the dataset :) Steffen Bauer, Heidelberg and Timo Homburg, Mainz supported the work on the technical side.
https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/search?ot=objekte&p=1,574
‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/stone-tablets-mesopotamia-iraq-red-tape-bureaucracy "Ancient #Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations" #cuneiform
The Guardian · ‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds
Cornell Chronicle: AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters. “Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters…. Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed an approach called ProtoSnap that ‘snaps’ into place a prototype of a character to fit the individual […]
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One more of these to (likely) complete my few days of fun with Sumerian #cuneiform. Spent hours digging through sources to grab many more names than last time. Caveat: many of these settlements have more than one name attested, and this map depicts names that occur centuries apart.
