There's an exhibition opportunity in fakes. Any institution that's been around long enough will have acquired loads of them, sure as scale build-up in a coffee machine. Grow a pair and air that reputational dirty laundry: here are the objects of supreme craftsmanship that royally screwed us over, and their insane backstories. Challenge the public's notion of the concepts involved.
All of this makes me wonder what actual protocol is. I fear it involves some combination of litigation, destruction, on-sale and permanent storage instead of anything constructive.
What I'm missing from the article that claims that the "precise" burial place of Plato was now revealed: is it, though?
Is the location of the shrine of the Muses known?
Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died: in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute; at a wedding feast; or peacefully in his sleep.
The garden was quite large, but archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, indicating a more precise burial location: in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses, according to Constanza Millani, director of the Institute of Heritage Science at Italy's National Research Council.
The scrolls stayed buried under volcanic mud until they were excavated in the 1700s from a single room that archaeologists believe held the personal working library of an Epicurean philosopher named Philodemus.
For instance, in 2019, German scientists used a combination of physics techniques (synchrotron radiation, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence) to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus.
"Compared to previous editions, there is now an almost radically changed text, which implies a series of new and concrete facts about various academic philosophers," Graziano Ranocchia, lead researcher on the project, said.
And earlier this year tech entrepreneur and challenge co-founder Nat Friedman announced via X (formerly Twitter) that they had awarded the grand prize of $700,000 for producing the first readable text.
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I thought golems were a Jewish mythology and had no idea that real living clay people existed in Japan. And I certainly didn't expect them to look like THAT!
I'm sure the Luddites can teach us a lot. After all, history has shown that their movement was a huge success since now it's illegal to replace workers with automation.
3 overlays to click through, then hijacked the back button to pop up a fourth. Don't care a fucking thing about the content, just adding the site to my filters.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing. It's interesting that counterfeit goes back to the invention of coins. I wonder why "inspected" coins are worth less to collectors than intact coins, to me the marks would add to the story.
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