‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/stone-tablets-mesopotamia-iraq-red-tape-bureaucracy "Ancient #Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations" #cuneiform
AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters — https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/03/ai-models-makes-precise-copies-cuneiform-characters
#HackerNews #AI #Cuneiform #Characters #AI #Models #Precision #Technology #History
One more of these to (likely) complete my few days of fun with Sumerian #cuneiform. Spent hours digging through sources to grab many more names than last time. Caveat: many of these settlements have more than one name attested, and this map depicts names that occur centuries apart.
I'm #bisexual & likely #aromantic as well as rather certainly #nonbinary.
Pronouns are they/them in English tho it gets tricky in languages with grammatical gender.
I've switched to #Linux on #desktop before getting sniped by Copilot but my phone's still in Android's & Google's grasp.
The #cuneiform to the right of my name reads "Child of the cosmos" in #Sumerian & the #hieroglyphs to the left read "primordial" in #AncientEgyptian.
#Introduction
#NeuHier