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edhopper

(37,375 posts) Mon Feb 16, 2026, 12:04 AM Feb 16

There might have been 100 other plays

by Sophocles we will never know.
And over 150 of Aristotle's works are lost.
There are works gone forever.

The entire written record of the Mayan civilization was burned.

Will never be seen

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