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Monday, May 20, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/405003p-3225890c.html Historians assembling virtual library of inscribed clay tablets ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (May 17, 2002 12:04 p.m. EDT) - Historians using the modern language of computers are putting together a virtual library of the earliest known written documents: clay tablets inscribed more than 4,000 years ago. Begun in 1998, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative has taken on new urgency. Experts fear the texts could be lost forever if they aren't cataloged electronically. About 120,000 cuneiform tablets from the third millennium B.C. are scattered throughout the world. Thousands more are plundered each year in Iraq and dumped on the world antiquities market. Tablets even show up on Web auction site eBay, where bidding can start at $1....
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