News tagged with ancient tablets
Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012
Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 25, 2011 |
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The story of ancient Persia gets digitized
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 30, 2009 |
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3-D printers make replicas of cuneiform tablets
Today's Assyriology scholars study Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets with the help of digital photographs or handwritten copies of the texts, but ideally, they visit collections to see the tablets ...
May 24, 2011 |
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