#historical-texts
#historical-texts

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The World's Oldest Love Poem: The Love Song for Shu-Sin

19th-century excavations in Mesopotamia revealed biblical narratives were derived from earlier sources, challenging the Bible's status as the oldest text.

Arts

fromArtnet News

3 weeks ago

Lost New Testament Pages Recovered After 1,500 Years | Artnet News

Researchers recovered 42 lost pages of Codex H using multispectral imaging, revealing previously invisible text from a 6th-century manuscript.

Science

fromHackernoon

1 year ago

Building OCR Systems for Tamizhi and Kurdish Historical Documents | HackerNoon

Developing OCR for historical Kurdish documents faces challenges due to the absence of accessible datasets and prior efforts.

fromThe New Yorker

10 months ago

Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison

"Everyone ought to read all this in high school." A student expressed frustration over students not being exposed to critical historical texts and principles that inform governance.

Education

Artificial intelligence

fromenglish.elpais.com

11 months ago

The Dead Sea Scrolls were written earlier than previously thought, according to AI

AI has dated 100 Dead Sea Scrolls, revealing they were written much earlier than previously thought.