Turn your dumb messages into cuneiform tablets

by matt_kirkland • 11 months ago

34 5 11 months 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• 11 months ago

If 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.

krupan2• 11 months ago

I 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• 11 months ago

That 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:_Warri... Her legend is beyond the power of one bard to sing.

krupan2• 11 months ago

Pretty wild that clay tablets are the longest lasting data storage that we know. I wonder if anyone is working on storing more than just tweets on clay tablets, you know, just in case?

Turn your dumb messages into cuneiform tablets

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