🚨Major announcement from the Vesuvius Challenge!
Researchers have completely virtually unwrapped and read an entire Herculaneum scroll for the first time; without ever physically opening it!
The Herculaneum scrolls are a collection of over 1,800 carbonized ancient papyrus scrolls discovered in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, Italy.
They were buried and preserved when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD
The text is a philosophical treatise on ethics, something we sorely could use a reminder of today.
One excerpt reads;
“…we will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if in some way we depart from ourselves and from our own nature…”
Prescient.
Ecco all’opera l’asse rossobruno o giallonero. Tornare a comprare il gas russo sembra una priorità assoluta nell’agenda di Vannacci e Di Battista. Il primo è stato addetto militare a Mosca, il secondo nel 2022 ha sentito l’urgenza di fare un documentario nella «Russia profonda».
They say that Ernest Hemingway was out drinking at the bar with his contemporaries when one of them bet him $20 that he couldn’t write a terrifying horror story using only 6 words. Hearing this, Hemingway grabbed a pen and wrote on a napkin, “Tweet translated from Hebrew by Grok”
Folks, let me tell you about this Talos situation. It's a total disaster. A complete and total disaster. Talos? Great warrior back in the day, they say. Maybe the best, some people are saying. But let me tell you, his time is over. Done. We're ending the worship of Talos.