there are hundreds of thousands of clay tablets in museum drawers, and most have never been published.

there are hundreds of thousands of clay tablets in museum drawers, and most have never been published. i asked claude to make a music video sung by one of them. it wrote the lyrics, generated the song, then drew every frame in code. every sign on screen comes from a real tablet: a receipt, a school drill, a complaint about bad copper, a hymn to the goddess of beer, the flood tablet. #cuneiform #ancienthistory #Gilgamesh