circling the abyss, kicking my feet in the water, ya know?
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🚨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.
The premodern world can be characterized by the belief that emergent forms were agentic, and so Rome itself had a secret, personal name, and revealing it was a capital crime. Quintus Valerius Soranus was famously executed for doing so. (Rome's secret name was "Hirpa", btw.)
That intense feeling of betrayal when you realize she's laughing at your jokes not because she appreciates your humor, but because she's sexually attracted to you.
Police in Australia are searching for missing magician Daniel Hidden after he vanished without a trace
His family have said his disappearance is out of character