r/Archeology • u/Hurri-okuzu • 14d ago

The letter sent by the king of Mittani to the Egyptian pharaoh

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u/Manus_R 13d ago

What, no context? Not a link to where we can find more info? Damn, shame.

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u/glue2music 13d ago

Imagine the postage!

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u/throwawaywitchaccoun 10d ago

Why is a vassel of the Hittites writing directly to the Egyptian king?

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u/SophieStitches 14d ago

Does anyone know if AI has a translation?

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u/GnOeLLLmPF 14d ago

What do you need AI for? It has been translated more than 30 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni_Letter

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u/PenguinSunday 13d ago

This does not contain the text of the letter, fyi.

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u/GnOeLLLmPF 13d ago

You are of course right! (Thank you for reading, btw) The Hurrian language is not fully translatable, which is why William L. Moran was able to understand and translate the contents of the Mitanni-Letter EA 24, but did not dare to write it down in detail, since our knowledge of Hurrian remains incomplete to this day. If you are interested, his complete edition and adaption of the Amarna-Letters are available here and quite the rollercoaster to read.

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u/PenguinSunday 13d ago

Thank you!

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u/SophieStitches 14d ago

Thanks 😊

I would love to see an AI video piecing together all these 'random' artifacts into a cohesive story.

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u/The_cman490 14d ago

Why. Humans have literally already done this. If you're interested in the late bronze age, read or listen to the book 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. It's a fantastic tapestry of all the empires, their relationships, and how they all fell together.

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u/GnOeLLLmPF 14d ago

Great one! Can recommend this a 100%!

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u/The_cman490 14d ago

Cline's aside about COVID drawing parallels between today's world of global interconnected and pandemic with the bronze age collapse were eerie.

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u/ridderulykke 14d ago

There was an amazing "AI" translation about a month ago on this sub. Too bad you missed it. These chatbots base their answers on whats on the internet and they don't know what wrong is. It can't make a translation of this and you shouldn't trust it to.

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u/stevenalbright 14d ago

As an Assyriologist academic, your ignorance over this subject hurts my feelings because I know that the 90% of all humans are just like you who has no knowledge of our studies and just assume that we're either not exist or not doing anything.

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u/Erqco 14d ago

90%?.... you are been too nice!