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Only 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 o
by jacobolus 5y ago
Only 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.
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It would be pretty neat if someone could figure out how to OCR all the cuneiform tablets and turn them into something searchable.