Etched with strange pictograms, lines and markings, they lay buried in the (0) dust desert earth of iraq for thousands of 0. dusty years. the clay tablets left by the ancient sumerians provide what is (1) think to be the earliest written record of ancient 1. civilisations. the stories and details they contain have stood the test of time, (2) survive through the millennia to be unearthed 2. by modern historians. however, there are fears that future archaeologists may lack the same sort of record when they come to search for evidence of our own civilisation. nowadays information is stored as lists of ones and zeros that can be edited or even completely deleted by a few (3) accident 3. strokes on a keyboard. “(4) fortunate, we live in an age 4. that will leave (5) hard any written traces,” explains martin 5. kunze. kunze’s (6) solve is the memory of mankind project, 6. a (7) collaborate between universities, newspapers and 7. libraries to create a modern version of those irst ancient tablets. the plan is to gather together the accumulated (8) know of our 8. time: oficial documents, details about our culture, (9) science 9. papers, biographies, popular novels, news, stories and images, and store it underground in a way that it is (10) read in the 10. future.