![]() ![]() Kunze’s solution is the Memory of Mankind project, a collaboration between academics, universities, newspapers and libraries to create a modern version of those first ancient Sumerian tablets discovered in the desert. “Unfortunately we live in an age that will leave hardly any written traces,” explained Martin Kunze. We live in a digital world where information is stored as lists of tiny electronic ones and zeros that can be edited or even wiped clean by a few accidental strokes on a keyboard. But there are fears that future archaeologists may not benefit from the same sort of immutable record when they come to search for evidence of our own civilisation. ![]() ![]() The stories and details they contain have stood the test of time, surviving through the millennia to be unearthed and deciphered by modern historians. ![]()
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