I'm thinking of just blocking all cuneiform texts.
If you mean coins, those are thought to be significantly more recent than the Hittites.
If you mean trade that is, for convenience, denominated in quantities of a reference commodity, that's much, much older. Everyone was doing that before anyone had noticed the Hittites.
What about earlier symbols and similar potential communication? For example, caves sometimes have marks that seems to have some symbolic meaning, such as slashes that seem like counts. How many are there to digitize?
I'm curious about the scale of it.
There are probably around 1-2 million cuneiform tablets that have been found so far. Many of them complete, but even more of them as fragments. Those fragments mostly just sit around in store rooms. It's a giant puzzle few people even have enough knowledge to attempt.
> There are probably around 1-2 million cuneiform tablets that have been found so far. Many of them complete, but even more of them as fragments.
That's a pretty amazing number - that so many have survived. It seems like it would take too much luck, unless some library has endured this long.
So many paper, parchment and papyrus records that were meant to be kept have been lost to fire and water over the millennia. Yet with clay tablets a fire not only struggles to harm the records that were meant to last, it turns all the temporary records, scratch pads and notes left around into long-lasting fired clay. Burn a Sumerian city to the ground and you create a snapshot of all their writing for archeologists to find millennia later
I don't think it'll ever happen. Some institutions would resist being part of any third party scaled up attempt to record things, others would demand editorial control, and the most asinine petty politics would gum things up.