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Re:Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City'... by Jun8 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:53AM (#27947019)
HN continues to amaze me, seeing this fascinating but obscure topic on the main page was a Sunday morning surprise.

There are many sources on these tunnels and passages, unfortunately not many of them in English. Here’s a video of one of the more accessible tunnels, under the hippodrome: https://youtu.be/TeP9BYjtiiI If you are curious, these were also featured in Expedition Unknown, streaming on Amazon Prime.

Many claim that there are tunnels from the city to Prince’ Islands, going under the sea, but these have not been found yet.

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Re:Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City'... by dr_dshiv on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:55AM (#27948486)
Regarding the sources: It's amazing how much of the Latin corpus still hasn't been translated to English. (I'm working on a much later set of NeoLatin translations) I've found there are great tools like OCR4all and alpheios.net — but there is a huge amount of specialized labor involved and virtually no funding.
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Re:Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City'... by dr_dshiv on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:58AM (#27948505)
And, worth mentioning that the situation is far worse for Sanskrit and other Indian languages, where thousands of unknown texts are literally moulding away in temple basements. I personally think it is tragic to lose cultural legacy like that.
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