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Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:39PM (#15612464)
Suprised they're not largely machine readable given the geometric nature of cuneiform. You might have to aggressively guess some combinations as the components of hte symbols aren't always well separated but it seems easier than reading current alphabets/characters.

I did get in to cuneiform at one point in the past but the dictionary to translate was, IIRC, over £1k.

Any good links you can suggest for corpus of works that are likely to yield interesting output, and sources to aid in that?

What software is good for aiding such translation work?

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by dkersten on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:38PM (#15613047)
Perhaps it’s just that nobody has tried? I can’t imagine it’s as difficult as, say, Google Street View’s street number recognition.

Unfortunately I don’t have any answers to your question. I’m a rather casual observer with an interest but little experience. I only recently got interested enough to buy some books in the topic (and Sumerian history/mythology in general). It seems that the best source of untranslated cuneiform would be to physically visit the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum (not sure if anybody can make an appointment for the cuneiform study rooms or what though...)

If you or anybody else were to find a collection/library of digitized cuneiform tablets, I would be very much interested myself, more so if there are any notes or commentary.

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by khedoros1 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:41PM (#15614101)
This looks like it fits the general description: https://cdli.ucla.edu/

It looks like they've got images of tablets from about 30 institutions, organized by time period. I've found a few with transliterations, but information seems fragmentary. There are also a fair number of entries without images.

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by dkersten on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:40PM (#15614530)
Thanks
Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by Ice_cream_suit on Friday November 03, 2017 @03:16AM (#15617213)