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Zwinglius Redivivus
Personal blog · zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.comhistoryphilosophy
Zwinglius Redivivus is a personal blog at zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com about history and philosophy. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on the Linear Elamite decipherment, a Smithsonian journalist's mistake, and historical oddities like monks and nuns digging tunnels. Comments cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" - Dante
Most-linked posts?
- /2022/08/08/the-decipherment-of-linear-elamite-writing-and-a-curious-way-of-doing-journalism-a-rejoinder-to-andrew-lawler-and-the-smithsonian-magazine-a-guest-post-by-gianni-marchesi/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-19
What Hacker News says?
As per https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/the-deci... Desset is not the main contributor, but one among equals. You might want to avoid making the same mistake the Smithsonian journalist did.
on “Have scholars finally deciphered Linear Elamite?”- wl · 2022-09-19
The authors of the paper in question take issue with this article: https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/the-deci...
on “Have scholars finally deciphered Linear Elamite?” There's at least one documented case of monks and nuns digging tunnels between their respective facilities. https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/fun-fact...
Comment linking /2015/08/12/fun-facts-from-church-history-the-tunnel-between-the-convent-and-the-monastery/
on “MARS-500”