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Vorderen Orient" and its translation to English "Archaic Bookkeeping," are widely used as textbooks in undergraduate and graduate programs in universities across the world. With UCLA Computer Science graduate students Sai Deep Tetali and Prashant Rajput, Englund developed free educational apps “cdli tablet” for the iOS and Android phone and tablet platforms. "cdli tablet" combines "text and images of ancient Mesopotamia that span 3500 years of human activity and describe the roots of trade, mathematics, and astronomy in ancient times, that follow the application of lex talionis by Hammurapi, and that bring to life the exploits of Gilgamesh and Enkidu."
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in 1998. Scaling to an international team of
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in the study of early writing systems, but hampered by the lack of reliable copies hindering this same progress. Englund supported later work aimed at producing high definition images of all of the proto-Elamite tablets through his work on the CDLI (below). His analysis of the economic and
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period (c. 3300 - 2900 BC). His work includes analyses of more than 2500 Uruk period texts (primarily in ATU 3 (with H.J. Nissen 1993), 5 (1995), 6 (with H.J. Nissen 2005), 7 (with H.J. Nissen 2001), MSVO 1 (with J.P. Grégoire 1991), 3 (with P. Damerow, forthcoming), and 4 (1996)). Englund
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partners, from the fourth millennium BC to the pre-Christian period. The CDLI has preserved historical texts from destruction, including from looting, war, and terrorism. The large datasets have allowed the use of big-data machine learning analysis.
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in the third millennium BC to provide economics-based insight into the organization of state-dependent workers and supervisors in fisheries. After post-doctoral research and teaching at the
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administrative history of the Ur III empire (c. 2100 - 2000 BC) are foundational, and the period was his scholarly passion.His writings are often punctuated by social commentary.
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