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user-inactivated  ·  2980 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Signs of Modern Astronomy Seen in Ancient Babylon

100,000 short texts might not be enough to do machine translation, if the parallel texts are even available in a machine-readable form. Wikipedia says these people are trying to post utf-8 texts of 50,000 tablets, so if anyone were going to try it they'd the ones to start with... but they seem to think File Maker Pro's proprietary file format is a good way to exchange data, so they couldn't make it less inviting to play with if they tried.