Search the Old Fashioned Way. Bing, Google, Not Needed
July 17, 2010
Sorry. Could not resist. Navigate to “Oldest Written Document Ever Found in Jerusalem Discovered by Hebrew University.” Quite a story of traditional search and retrieval. A 14th century BCE document surfaced in Jerusalem.
Here’s the passage I noted:
The words the symbols form are not significant in themselves, but what is significant is that the script is of a very high level, testifying to the fact that it was written by a highly skilled scribe that in all likelihood prepared tablets for the royal household of the time, said Prof. Wayne Horowitz , a scholar of Assyriology at the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology. Horowitz deciphered the script along with his former graduate student Dr. Takayoshi Oshima, now of the University of Leipzig, Germany.
The conclusion I drew is that writing systems may have been older and more sophisticated than I was taught at university. This type of search and retrieval returns a zero on Bing and Google. Useful reminder that not all information resides in these systems. Nothing against Bing and Google, of course. I just like the idea of old fashioned, down and dirty research and human-centric translation.
Stephen E Arnold, July 15, 2010
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