https://www.iflscience.com/3500-year-old-cuneiform-tablet-contains-ancient-shopping-receipt-75216
Tomato sauce, toilet roll, domestos...the usual stuff
"the sale and purchase of a large number of chairs, tables, and stools" - what's the Akkadian for IKKEA?
;D
I'm interested in the AI tablet reader as there are vast numbers that have been discovered from the Bronze Ages, and not yet published. Grants often cover the dig but not the follow-up research and publication.
Isn't the latter activity meant to be carried out by the great archaeologist's team of lackeys PhD students? I mean, if the bloody stupid AI can do all this, what future is there for academia?
???
I suppose Alalah may have been relatively "wood-rich" compared to locations further east, given its relative proximity to Lebanon and Anatolia. Indeed, the immediate area may not have been as deforested as it is now. Whether this has any bearing on furniture sales...
AI is here to steal our jobs...
:P
Quote from: Imperial Dave on July 26, 2024, 07:01:18 AMAI is here to steal our jobs...
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Those would be the thousands employed in translating cuneiform tablets worldwide?
Tongue firmly in cheek there... ;)