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There was a post a few days ago about Roman Egypt that mentioned how there are so many papyri that are just sitting there and not enough trained Egyptologists t
by jmopp 4y ago
There was a post a few days ago about Roman Egypt that mentioned how there are so many papyri that are just sitting there and not enough trained Egyptologists to read, translate, and contextualise them. There is clear value in training Egyptologists, since by learning more about Egypt's place in the Roman empire, we can learn more about Western society (as we are in some sense descendents of the Roman Empire) as well as Middle-Eastern society (as Egypt was one of the first huge conquests from the Romans by the Rashidun Caliphate, and thus an early example of how the Middle East became Islamic)
- jojobas 4y agoThe problem is that no government or other entity is willing to hire 1000 Egyptologists for their lifetimes in order to translate and digitize all that papyrwork, as there is perceived value of their contents is Not That High.
- tonto 4y agosounds like ya might want a computational egyptologist
- quickthrower2 4y agoAll roads lead to ChatGPT this week
- biofox 4y agoThat's why researchers also lecture. They get paid for the latter (in a closely aligned topic), with some small amount of time to perform the former.