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'Google Translate'-like program for Akkadian cuneiform will enable tens of thousands of digitized but unread tablets to be translated to English. Accuracy is debatable
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Ancient texts suggest romantic smooching, and likely the diseases it transmitted, were widespread in Mesopotamia
An article in Haaretz: "Two 3,800-year-old Cuneiform Tablets Found in Iraq Give First Glimpse of Hebrew Precursor" (Ofer Aderet, 1-20-23), describes a We now have striking direct evidence of a proto-Hebrew language dating from 1800 BC: "a spoken language that was very close to Hebrew" in Abraham's time!
The shape of the ark has been a puzzle for millennia. Until now.
Webster Bank has doubled the footprint of its Stamford offices, which have become its new...