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I saw cuneiform tablets over at the Penn Museum. The text was a lot tighter than what is on these tablets. Still a really neat concept, and it's neat that you c
by Something1234 1y ago
I saw cuneiform tablets over at the Penn Museum. The text was a lot tighter than what is on these tablets. Still a really neat concept, and it's neat that you can actually read it.
Tbh really curious if these will date to our era and confuse a lot of archaeologists later.
- wl 1y agoIf you were at the Penn Museum, you were looking at tablets mostly written in Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform. Those languages are written in a mostly syllabic cuneiform system. These tablets are English written in the Old Persian cuneiform alphabet. The Old Persian alphabet, being an alphabet, has a smaller number of simpler signs than you'd see in Akkadian and Sumerian, which require hundreds of different signs that are generally more elaborate.
- krupan 1y agoI saw a tweet that said, "2000 years from now nobody will know the difference between a booty call and a butt dial, and this is why the Bible is hard for us to understand." So yes, this very well could confuse archeologists in the future and I'm here for it!
- ahazred8ta 1y agoThat lines up with the far-future RPG 'Diana: Warrior Princess', set in the ancient 20th century as described by myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_L._Rowland#Diana:_Warrior_Princess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_L._Rowland#Diana:_Warri... Her legend is beyond the power of one bard to sing.