Several linguists worldwide have compiled an online collection of Babylonian texts spoken language to allow anyone to find out how the language sounds that dominate the Middle East just two and a half thousand years, informs Yahoo News
Among the texts are found recorded Epic of Gilgamesh and Hammurabi's Code, which contains the oldest laws in history. Professor Martin Worthingtington from Cambridge University said that the language sounds like a mixture of Arabic and Italian.
The sounds were reconstructed using a comparison with other related languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. They also used words written in Greek or Babylonian Aramaic.
Babylon is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and texts stored in the form of clay tablets in the literature is the beginning of all humanity. Thirty recordings are available at www.speechisfire.com.
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China has censored the word "Egypt" sites of micro-blogging
The word "Egypt" was censored on Saturday on several sites of micro-blogging in China, where political, democratic claims and street protests are not Communist Party's favorite topics AFP.
On sites of micro-blogging sina.com and sohu.com, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter (and it censored in China), a search with the word "Egypt" generates the following result: "Under current laws, your search results not can be communicated. "
Official media, especially television agency Xinhua and CCTV, however, showed the protests in Egypt and led the movement to challenge the regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Censorship in China is very active when it comes to preventing criticism of the government or human rights issues.
Internet is 'clean' politically sensitive sites and Beijing tightly controls the community of 450 million Chinese Internet users to avoid a possible organization of dissident or foreign influences.
11/12/2010
Bulgaria among the countries with the highest level of internet piracy
Bulgaria is among the countries with the highest level of piracy on the Internet in Central and Eastern Europe, was announced at the Forum BAIT 2.10 Week held in Sofia Novinite informs.
Matthew Lambert, coordinator of the U.S. Department of Justice and Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in Eastern Europe, said about 100% of pirated software and files in Central and Eastern Europe are distributed online.
He also said that Bulgaria is among the countries with highest piracy, content for which was not previously obtained a license is distributed mostly on the Internet.
Forum organized by the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT) took place on November 29 in Sofia.
