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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Babylonian text missing for 1,000 years deciphered with AI
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 20:35:00 +0200
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On 2025-07-06 17:59:52 +0000, Sam Plusnet said:

> On 05/07/2025 05:42, Tilde wrote:
>> 
>> https://www.popsci.com/science/missing-babylon-text-ai/
>> 
>> A team of ancient literature experts have
>> deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing
>> for over 1,000 years. Etched on clay tablets,
> 
> If AI leads to the assumption that cuneform is somehow "etched", then I 
> suspect its translation is as trustworthy as the average election 
> manifesto.

Enrique Jiménez seems to know how cuneiform tablers were produced, so 
it is probably Laura Baisas (the author of the aricle in Popular 
Science) that is confused. But is the problem that she doesn't know how 
cuneiform tablers were made, or she doesn't know what "etched" means? 
(Maybe both?)


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 38 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.