#amazing stuff

quasi-normalcy:

petermorwood:

mostlysignssomeportents:

It’s real and it does exactly what it says it will: send Dumb Cuneiform a tweet or an SMS message and they’ll translate it into ancient Persian cuneiform, stamp it into a clay tablet and mail it to you. $20. It’s Snow-Crash-a-riffic.

http://boingboing.net/2015/11/07/dumb-cuneiform-your-tweets-t.html

Now I’m thinking about that 4,000 year old Babylonian customer complaint…

If these are made of baked ceramic tiles, then there’s every likelihood that they will outlast the overwhelming majority of other contemporary textual sources

I love this idea and I want one.