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  1. 🏺🤓 Scholars discover ancient #Austronesian text, immediately blocked by Wikipedia's robot overlords for daring to lack a user agent. 🤖🔒 Because, really, who needs access to historical #linguistics when you can have phabricator links instead? 😂
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C #ancienttext #wikipedia #technologyhumor #scholarlyaccess #HackerNews #ngated

  2. *1775* Poland / Constitution entitled: "Tax on tea traders".
    Central Archives of Historical Records

    Unit type: Act documentation
    Signature: 1/354/0/2.1/3094
    Date/Period of creation: 1775
    Dates: 1775 - 1775
    Upload: Sikorski Arkadiusz htTPS://arQ.PL/
    #Document #HistoricalDocument #OldManuscript #Archival #Archive #AncientText #HistoricalRecord #Manuscript #OldPaper #HistoricalArchive #AntiqueDocument #ArchivalResearch #HistoricalManuscript #OldRecord #DocumentaryEvidence #HistoricalText

  3. 🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎧

    Listen here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv

    Or here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/

    Our AI hosts are "cracking open" the Cyrus Cylinder! 🏺 This ancient Babylonian artifact isn't just a dusty relic – it's Cyrus the Great's personal PR campaign! 👑 Hear how he spun his conquest as divine will (thanks, Marduk! 😉) and positioned himself as a liberator. 🏛️ We'll unpack the propaganda, the religious tolerance (a bit ahead of its time!), and why it's a symbol of human rights today... even if that wasn't the plan. 🤔 There's even a copy at the UN! 🇺🇳 Tune in for a trip back to the Achaemenid Empire! #CyrusTheGreat #CyrusCylinder #AncientHistory #PersianEmpire #Archaeology #BritishMuseum #Podcast #HistoryPodcast #Mesopotamia #Babylon #HumanRights #Propaganda #AncientText #AI #DigitalHumanities