- Blue and Orange ( @DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ) 36•11 months ago
- How to say “I want a refund for this poor quality copper, Ea Nasir” in ancient sumerian
- Damaskox ( @Damaskox@kbin.social ) 7•11 months ago
I actually started looking!
One site would have wanted me to pay for yer translation.
One led to an article of the alphabets and learning the language.
One didn’t have any of the words I searched in their database.Guess we don’t have a functional, free eng-sum(?) translator out there!
- thegiddystitcher ( @thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ) 6•11 months ago
Gap in the market right there!
- Damaskox ( @Damaskox@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
If you find the demand for it!
- kingludd ( @kingludd@lemmy.basedcount.com ) 1•10 months ago
Check out the Complaint Tablet to Ea Nasir
It’s akkadian, not sumerian tho
- wombatula ( @wombatula@lemm.ee ) English21•11 months ago
Sorry to be the one to break this to whoever still believes this:
The main myths surrounding the Great Library of Alexandria are that 1) it was just one enormous library 2) containing a half-million or more scrolls full of ancient knowledge that was 3) sensationally destroyed in a senseless act of vandalism.
Problem is, there’s no hard evidence to substantiate any of that nonsense. There are so many fantasy accounts of the “Great Library,” its founding, its contents and its destruction that we today really do not know how much of it is true and how much is revisionist bullshit. But we’re pretty sure most of it is revisionist bullshit.
It’s more likely that the “Great Library of Alexandria" was actually comprised of two or three (or maybe more) small “libraries,” which were just limited collections of scrolls and reading rooms associated with various Greek temples. These were all part of the larger Mouseion (a scholarly Greek institution honoring the 9 goddesses of the Arts, aka the Muses), which had branches all over the Greek world at the time, all the way back to Athens.
The Greeks were also famous for making multiple, multiple handwritten copies of any literature they encountered, such that the scroll collections at Alexandria probably existed as duplicate copies elsewhere all across the Greek world. So, it would be virtually impossible to destroy the collected knowledge of the Ancient World by simply destroying one “library" in one city.
Furthermore, the alleged fiery destruction of the “Great Library” has undoubtedly been blown out of proportion for millennia, right up to the present, by opinionated pseudo-historians attempting to assign blame for one heinous act that may not have even happened. The fact is that nobody knows how the Great Library (or several small reading rooms) of Alexandria came to an end. Very likely, it met the common fate of most libraries throughout history…a gradual decline of interest and eventual extinction due to lack of funding.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 16•11 months ago
Let’s also not forget that Greeks already had computers (the Appytechira mechanism) for playing sick worldbuilding sim games on, and so quite likely had their own internet (using aquaducts and wine) and so had no use for a library, especially when they could download and print all their porn on vases.
God, read a little!
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 18•11 months ago
you wouldn’t download a vase
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
Heck yeah I would!
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•11 months ago
3d printers literally have a mode dedicated to this specific use case
- lemillionsocks ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months ago
What are you quoting?
- morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
Would be better to save the Baghdad house of wisdom from the mongols
- wombatula ( @wombatula@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
Considering that it was more concentrated, and also more thoroughly destroyed in a single act, potentially yes. Unfortunately we don’t really know what was contained in the BHoW, but that could be said for the LoA as well so that’s a moot point.
- YaketySax ( @YaketySax@discuss.online ) English2•11 months ago
The Greeks were also famous for making multiple, multiple handwritten copies of any literature they encountered
You kinda had to then, since archival paper wasn’t invented and papyrus doesn’t normally last very long.
- Grayox ( @Grayox@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Didnt Julius Ceasar also took most of it back to Rome and the contents are now held in the Vatican Library? if I’m not mistaken.
- wyrmroot ( @wyrmroot@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
This actually makes me feel much better, thanks
- Blackout ( @Blackout@kbin.social ) 20•11 months ago
I tried that time machine one before. I just want to apologize to everyone for screwing up this timeline. I thought giving Obama that joke about Trump would be funny, not lead to this.
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- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 2•11 months ago
Crassus out of Spartacus:Blood And Sand founded the world’s first fire brigade long after the loss of the library, so you’re going to be shit out of luck getting any help.
- Damaskox ( @Damaskox@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
I like how the ancient Egypt sounds like!
A shout-out to The Mummy!