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Historians spend a lot of time pouring over minutia from non-notable people. There is plenty about the world that doesn't seem worth writing down, but can be in
by X6S1x6Okd1st 5y ago
Historians spend a lot of time pouring over minutia from non-notable people. There is plenty about the world that doesn't seem worth writing down, but can be intuited from tangential texts.
The costs seems low enough to just keep it.
- dogorman 5y agoFrom what I understand, present day historians are sitting on a huge pile of cuneiform tablets that have yet to be transcribed or translated because there is much more material than there is interest/manpower. Of course, to your point, they do keep it around. They don't just throw it in the trash.
- jacobolus 5y agoOnly a tiny number of people in the world can read Sumerian or Akkadian, even for them the process is slow and error prone because we are missing a lot of the original context, and they have better things to do than skim through piles of delivery receipts. * * * It would be pretty neat if someone could figure out how to OCR all the cuneiform tablets and turn them into something searchable.