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The 22-Year-Old Who Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Rome

by dsr12 on 2/4/25, 3:30 AM with 3 comments

  • by fpesce on 2/4/25, 4:41 AM

    It's almost painfully poetic: Luke Farritor, a young mind who painstakingly reassembled the shattered echoes of an ancient library, now finds himself part of an administrative autodafé. The same kid who unlocked 2,000-year-old secrets is implicated in a modern purge, erasing the remnants of a civilization whose records we thought were sacrosanct. It's a stark, ironic twist that technology, once the key to resurrecting lost histories, now fuels a deliberate obliteration of our documented present. History’s full circle is as brutal as it is fascinating.
  • by binary_slinger on 2/4/25, 3:39 AM

    There’s a good reason this is being posted now.

    Your astroturfing should have begun months ago.