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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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