Re: Babylonian text missing for 1,000 years deciphered with AI

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