Deep time¶
Notes on projects and ideas that operate on timescales of centuries and millennia: long-term archives, durable storage media, and how information survives — or fails to.
The oldest written artifacts and why they survived
The written artifacts historians value most survived by accident, on durable materials — clay, stone, and metal outlast parchment, paper, and every digital medium.
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Memory of Mankind
The Memory of Mankind project stores text and images on ceramic tablets in the Hallstatt salt mine in Austria, intended to remain readable for thousands of years.
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