Humanities & Cultures

2532 readers

1 users here now

Human society and cultural news, studies, and other things of that nature. From linguistics to philosophy to religion to anthropology, if it's an academic discipline you can most likely put it here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

Food

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org

We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World. (worksinprogress.co)

submitted 1 month ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/humanities@beehaw.org

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Very long but also very interesting. Amazing how they're able to "open" and read carbonized scrolls.

top 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 13 points 1 month ago

This is pretty mind blowing. Finding even one of the lost parts of Homer's cycle would be nuts. I'm excited for the discoveries and all the gaps in our records we can fill in.

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 11 points 1 month ago

Great read! Thank you

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

V cool.

[–] hedge@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Kwakigra@beehaw.org, @Gaywallet@beehaw.org, & @h3mlocke@lemm.ee: I probably wouldn't have found this if it weren't for Arts & Letters Daily, which I highly recommend, if you haven't already heard of it. It's definitely more humanities oriented, but over the years they've posted a lot of interesting stuff that I probably would never have read otherwise.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Oh wow thanks!