I was wondering why the researchers hadn’t released any pictures of this newly discovered language, but on careful re-reading I realise it was transcribed in cunieform… so to me it would be totally indistinguishable from any other Hittite tablet.
Yeah sure fuck it. Let’s just read the ancient mystery tablet and see what happens. I’m willing to roll those dice right now.
It could be another complaint letter about copper
Fuck Ea-nāṣir and his low grade copper.
We can only hope
I can’t believe I have to say this but: ghosts aren’t real.
That’s exactly what a ghost on the Internet would say.
“My cousin Nanni in Akkadia warned me not to buy copper from you, but I foolishly did not heed his warning…”
Turns out it’s Java
Back when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
Except that it was so long ago that they were still using Onetran.
Archeology never ceases to amaze me.
I will always regret not going for an archaeology degree in college.
No you won’t. As was explained by an actual archaeologist, the domain is likened to a ponzi scheme where you spend more time trying to convince investors to finance your digging through the mud than actually finding anything worth investing in. You will give everything you have and more to the lowest bidder, because all the rich people you’d look to invest are already taken by professors much older and much more experienced than you are. Dirty deeds are abound and everywhere you go there will be no escape from smuggling, money laundering or corporate interests clashing with your own. The archaeology profession is synonymous with nepotism and corruption because all the purists are already buried deep next to the relics they so wished to uncover.
You could always work in cultural resource management. Here in Canada archaeological assessment is a legal requirement before any major construction, so there’s always work to do without begging for investors. That said you’ll be more educated and less paid than other trades-people you’ll encounter on site, and that makes all the hard work certainly feel less rewarding.
This is spot on. Anthropology is similar, except that there is absolutely no money whatsoever and the fights are over community college gigs.
Honestly, digs interest me less than landscape archaeology, which is a whole different ballgame, as it requires very little funding. You can do a lot of it with a map and a bicycle if you know what I’m doing. I don’t know what I’m doing though.
Then go learn and after that, have fun.
I’m 46 and don’t have the time, money or energy to go back to school at this point. But it’s a nice thought and I’ll continue to read up on Ohio’s Hopewell Culture and the Mississippian culture to the West that came after it and all of the amazing marks they left on the landscape (although so many have been destroyed).
I had a thought of some archaeologists dusting off a first-gen ipad and peering at it through a microscope
The message was translated ‘what r u up to rn? I wanna double park on that booty baby’
Hey, who swapped my Fertility Ceremony tablet with my Funerary Rites tablet!?
tlhIngan Hol vIghaj
