Nice side effect of the current AI hype: one reads about older projects that also use some form of AI, for example the electronic Babylonian library (https://www.ebl.lmu.de/about), where the project staff is divided into cuneiformists and developers. See also the German write-up on the project here: https://www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/newsuebersicht/news/im-fragmentarium.html
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King Ashurbanipal collected over 30,000 clay tablets at Nineveh to establish easily the greatest library of his age. Though not nearly as well known as the sayings collected and preserved in the Biblical Book of Proverbs, the Babylonian proverbs preserved by Ashurbanipal are most likely older works and, possibly, a source of inspiration for the Biblical work (as the first proverbs in the Bible ...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/181/ashurbanipals-collection-of-babylonian-proverbs/ #Ashurbanipal #BabylonianLiterature #History