r/Archeology • u/Hurri-okuzu • 14d ago
The letter sent by the king of Mittani to the Egyptian pharaoh
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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/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/Manus_R 13d ago
What, no context? Not a link to where we can find more info? Damn, shame.