3500 year old cuneiform tablet

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.iflscience.com/3500-year-old-cuneiform-tablet-contains-ancient-shopping-receipt-75216

Tomato sauce, toilet roll, domestos...the usual stuff

[Duncan Head]

"the sale and purchase of a large number of chairs, tables, and stools" - what's the Akkadian for IKKEA?

[Imperial Dave]

 

[stevenneate]

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.

[Nick Harbud]

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?

 

[DBS]

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...

[Imperial Dave]

AI is here to steal our jobs...

 

[Erpingham]

AI is here to steal our jobs...

 

Those would be the thousands employed in translating cuneiform tablets worldwide?

[Imperial Dave]

Tongue firmly in cheek there...