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  "schema": "kbatch-antiquity-discovery-mesh-v1",
  "generated": "2026-07-26T01:09:27Z",
  "claim": "Declaration-class antiquity projects: parchment/codex/wall streams that can grow glyph packs, path geometry, Cage gates, and open names. Not a museum replacement — geometry + research mesh.",
  "doctrine": {
    "rights": "PD / project-open / museum-permitted images only · never pirate commercial editions",
    "honor": "Living languages and Indigenous knowledge stay opt-in; educational seeds only",
    "cage": "Sensational decipherment and doomsday claims → Cage litmus (RAW vs STONE vs FICTION)",
    "purity": "Geometry / SO / phon streams stay separate when calibration is applied",
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      "declaration": "public text · line/glyph stream · multi-layer imaging · Cage",
      "codex": "folio/facsimile · deep-zoom · restoration layers · path on tokens"
    }
  },
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    "source object (parchment | codex | wall | tablet)",
    "imaging layers (photo | UV | multi-spectral | CT)",
    "token / glyph / line stream",
    "path geometry + optional Letter-Grid",
    "open names + scholar attribution",
    "Cage RAW+STONE gate"
  ],
  "statusLegend": {
    "live": "shipped surface in KBatch",
    "scaffold": "catalog + restoration hooks; ready for next build cut",
    "open": "watchlist / potential project; thin seed only",
    "blocked": "do not ship (rights or doctrine)"
  },
  "counts": {
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    "live": 2,
    "scaffold": 6,
    "open": 33,
    "tier1": 8
  },
  "headlineDiscoveries": [
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      "id": "xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
      "year": 2026,
      "oneLiner": "First named Maya astronomer-mathematician: Sak Tahn Waax (White-chested Fox)."
    },
    {
      "id": "herculaneum-vesuvius-challenge",
      "year": 2026,
      "oneLiner": "Herculaneum scrolls virtually unwrapped end-to-end; new Philodemus texts."
    }
  ],
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      "decl-independence-1776"
    ],
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      "codex-regius-gks2365",
      "elder-futhark-runestones"
    ],
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      "xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
      "dresden-codex",
      "madrid-codex",
      "paris-codex",
      "grolier-maya-codex",
      "san-bartolo-murals"
    ],
    "kiche-maya": [
      "popol-vuh"
    ],
    "greco-roman": [
      "herculaneum-vesuvius-challenge"
    ],
    "jewish": [
      "dead-sea-scrolls"
    ],
    "egyptian-hellenistic": [
      "rosetta-stone"
    ],
    "unknown": [
      "voynich-manuscript"
    ],
    "greek": [
      "archimedes-palimpsest",
      "antikythera-mechanism",
      "iliad-venetus-a"
    ],
    "christian": [
      "codex-sinaiticus"
    ],
    "mycenaean": [
      "linear-b-tablets"
    ],
    "persian": [
      "behistun-inscription"
    ],
    "greco-egyptian": [
      "oxyrhynchus-papyri"
    ],
    "coptic-gnostic": [
      "nag-hammadi"
    ],
    "sumerian-akkadian": [
      "gilgamesh-tablets"
    ],
    "babylonian": [
      "code-hammurabi"
    ],
    "egyptian": [
      "pyramid-texts"
    ],
    "international-bronze-age": [
      "amarna-letters"
    ],
    "eblaite": [
      "ebla-tablets"
    ],
    "multi-script-silk-road": [
      "dunhuang-manuscripts"
    ],
    "buddhist-chinese": [
      "diamond-sutra"
    ],
    "turkic": [
      "orkhon-inscriptions"
    ],
    "gaeilge": [
      "ogham-stones"
    ],
    "anglo-norman": [
      "magna-carta"
    ],
    "norman": [
      "domesday-book",
      "bayeux-tapestry"
    ],
    "minoan": [
      "phaistos-disc"
    ],
    "rapa-nui": [
      "rongorongo"
    ],
    "harappan": [
      "indus-script-seals"
    ],
    "olmec": [
      "cascajal-block"
    ],
    "nahua-spanish": [
      "florentine-codex",
      "codex-mendoza"
    ],
    "anglo-saxon": [
      "beowulf-nowell"
    ]
  },
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      "decl-independence-1776"
    ],
    "medieval-icelandic": [
      "codex-regius-gks2365"
    ],
    "maya-hieroglyphic": [
      "xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
      "dresden-codex",
      "madrid-codex",
      "paris-codex",
      "grolier-maya-codex",
      "san-bartolo-murals"
    ],
    "latin-transcription": [
      "popol-vuh"
    ],
    "greek": [
      "herculaneum-vesuvius-challenge",
      "archimedes-palimpsest",
      "antikythera-mechanism",
      "iliad-venetus-a"
    ],
    "hebrew-aramaic": [
      "dead-sea-scrolls"
    ],
    "hieroglyphic-demotic-greek": [
      "rosetta-stone"
    ],
    "unknown-voynich": [
      "voynich-manuscript"
    ],
    "greek-uncial": [
      "codex-sinaiticus"
    ],
    "linear-b": [
      "linear-b-tablets"
    ],
    "old-persian-elamite-akkadian": [
      "behistun-inscription"
    ],
    "greek-coptic": [
      "oxyrhynchus-papyri"
    ],
    "coptic": [
      "nag-hammadi"
    ],
    "cuneiform": [
      "gilgamesh-tablets",
      "code-hammurabi",
      "ebla-tablets"
    ],
    "hieroglyphic": [
      "pyramid-texts"
    ],
    "akkadian-cuneiform": [
      "amarna-letters"
    ],
    "chinese-sogdian-tibetan-etc": [
      "dunhuang-manuscripts"
    ],
    "chinese": [
      "diamond-sutra"
    ],
    "old-turkic-runiform": [
      "orkhon-inscriptions"
    ],
    "ogham": [
      "ogham-stones"
    ],
    "runic": [
      "elder-futhark-runestones"
    ],
    "latin": [
      "magna-carta",
      "domesday-book"
    ],
    "latin-captions": [
      "bayeux-tapestry"
    ],
    "unknown-phaistos": [
      "phaistos-disc"
    ],
    "rongorongo": [
      "rongorongo"
    ],
    "indus": [
      "indus-script-seals"
    ],
    "possible-olmec": [
      "cascajal-block"
    ],
    "nahuatl-spanish": [
      "florentine-codex"
    ],
    "pictorial-nahuatl-spanish": [
      "codex-mendoza"
    ],
    "old-english": [
      "beowulf-nowell"
    ]
  },
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      "decl-independence-1776",
      "codex-regius-gks2365"
    ],
    "scaffold": [
      "xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
      "dresden-codex",
      "herculaneum-vesuvius-challenge",
      "dead-sea-scrolls",
      "rosetta-stone",
      "beowulf-nowell"
    ],
    "open": [
      "madrid-codex",
      "paris-codex",
      "grolier-maya-codex",
      "san-bartolo-murals",
      "popol-vuh",
      "voynich-manuscript",
      "archimedes-palimpsest",
      "codex-sinaiticus",
      "linear-b-tablets",
      "behistun-inscription",
      "oxyrhynchus-papyri",
      "nag-hammadi",
      "gilgamesh-tablets",
      "code-hammurabi",
      "pyramid-texts",
      "amarna-letters",
      "ebla-tablets",
      "dunhuang-manuscripts",
      "diamond-sutra",
      "orkhon-inscriptions",
      "ogham-stones",
      "elder-futhark-runestones",
      "magna-carta",
      "domesday-book",
      "bayeux-tapestry",
      "antikythera-mechanism",
      "phaistos-disc",
      "rongorongo",
      "indus-script-seals",
      "cascajal-block",
      "florentine-codex",
      "codex-mendoza",
      "iliad-venetus-a"
    ]
  },
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    {
      "id": "decl-independence-1776",
      "title": "Declaration of Independence · engrossed parchment",
      "status": "live",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "early-modern",
      "region": "north-america",
      "culture": "american-founding",
      "script": "latin-copperplate",
      "media": [
        "parchment",
        "iron-gall-ink",
        "multispectral"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1776,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "NARA engrossed calligraphy · master glyph stream 6235 · Letter-Grid · Cage litmus · multi-layer archive workspace.",
      "names": [
        "Timothy Matlack",
        "John Hancock"
      ],
      "composePath": [
        "Rubik Focus",
        "Letter-Grid stream",
        "JAX rank",
        "c(a,b)",
        "Cage RAW+STONE"
      ],
      "surfaces": {
        "lab": "/labs/declaration-digital-edition/",
        "letterGrid": "/labs/declaration-digital-edition/letter-grid.html",
        "pipe": "/labs/declaration-digital-edition/letter-grid-pipe.html",
        "data": "/data/declaration/",
        "museum": "/museum.html"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "letter-grid",
        "cage-litmus",
        "paleography",
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "public-domain NARA scans",
      "nextCuts": [
        "session-token lettergrid step",
        "higher multi-spectral layers"
      ],
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "NARA transcript",
          "url": "https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declaration",
        "live",
        "parchment",
        "us-history",
        "glyph-stream"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "codex-regius-gks2365",
      "title": "Codex Regius · GKS 2365 4to (Poetic Edda)",
      "status": "live",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "medieval",
      "region": "iceland",
      "culture": "norse",
      "script": "medieval-icelandic",
      "media": [
        "vellum",
        "facsimile",
        "deep-zoom",
        "restoration-layers"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1270,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "144-folio scholarly digital edition · multi-layer clean/vellum · paleography hub · living-books visual project.",
      "names": [],
      "composePath": [
        "facsimile layers",
        "deep-zoom",
        "path on poem names",
        "restoration notes"
      ],
      "surfaces": {
        "externalViewer": "https://fornevercollective.github.io/codex-regius-digital/book-viewer.html",
        "externalHub": "https://fornevercollective.github.io/codex-regius-digital/paleography-hub.html",
        "visual": "/data/living-books/visual-projects.json#codex-regius-gks2365",
        "livingBooks": "/labs/living-books.html"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration",
        "mythology-crosswalk"
      ],
      "rights": "project-open scholarly edition",
      "nextCuts": [
        "full LFS page pack on Pages/R2",
        "line-glyph analysis parity with Declaration"
      ],
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "codex-regius-digital",
          "url": "https://github.com/fornevercollective/codex-regius-digital"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "codex",
        "edda",
        "norse",
        "live",
        "facsimile"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
      "title": "Xultun structure 10K-2 · Sak Tahn Waax (White-chested Fox)",
      "status": "scaffold",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "classic-maya",
      "region": "guatemala",
      "culture": "maya",
      "script": "maya-hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "mural",
        "microtext",
        "multispectral",
        "wall-glyphs"
      ],
      "yearHint": 781,
      "discoveryYear": 2026,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "First named Classic Maya astronomer-mathematician. Attribution phrase che-he-na + name SAK-TAHN-wa-xi on wall calculations linking Venus, Mars, and Maya calendar (~AD 781). San Bartolo–Xultun Project; Antiquity 2026.",
      "names": [
        {
          "name": "Sak Tahn Waax",
          "gloss": "White-chested Fox",
          "role": "astronomer-mathematician",
          "orthography": "SAK-TAHN-wa-xi"
        },
        {
          "name": "Franco Rossi",
          "role": "lead author (modern)",
          "note": "cite-out only"
        },
        {
          "name": "David Stuart",
          "role": "epigrapher (modern)",
          "note": "cite-out only"
        },
        {
          "name": "Heather Hurst",
          "role": "project director (modern)",
          "note": "cite-out only"
        }
      ],
      "composePath": [
        "glyph attribution stream (che-he-na + name)",
        "calendar / Venus–Mars equation tables",
        "multispectral wall layers",
        "Cage RAW vs STONE (claim vs inscription)",
        "path geometry on romanized Maya tokens"
      ],
      "surfaces": {
        "restoration": "/data/living-books/restoration-projects.json#restore-xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
        "visual": "/data/living-books/visual-projects.json#xultun-10k2-scaffold",
        "names": "/data/antiquity/scholar-names.json",
        "lexicon": "/data/antiquity/lexicon-seed.json"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "paleography",
        "path-geometry",
        "cage-litmus",
        "open-names",
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "scholarly publication + press; images cite Nat Geo / project — no pirate facsimile",
      "nextCuts": [
        "public-domain / licensed glyph drawings pack",
        "line-section table for Text 19 microtexts",
        "optional Maya calendar path capsule",
        "museum kit for romanized Classic Maya tokens"
      ],
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Antiquity DOI",
          "url": "https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10378"
        },
        {
          "label": "National Geographic",
          "url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/first-maya-astronomer-mathematician-name"
        },
        {
          "label": "Science News",
          "url": "https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-maya-astronomer-name-sak-tahn-waax"
        }
      ],
      "relatedProjects": [
        "dresden-codex",
        "madrid-codex",
        "paris-codex",
        "grolier-maya-codex",
        "san-bartolo-murals",
        "popol-vuh"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "astronomy",
        "named-scholar",
        "2026-discovery",
        "scaffold",
        "xultun",
        "venus",
        "mars"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dresden-codex",
      "title": "Dresden Codex · Maya astronomical tables",
      "status": "scaffold",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "postclassic-maya",
      "region": "mesoamerica",
      "culture": "maya",
      "script": "maya-hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "bark-paper-codex",
        "facsimile",
        "eclipse-tables"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1200,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Best-preserved Maya codex; Venus tables, eclipse cycles, day counts. Natural sibling to Xultun workshop math.",
      "names": [],
      "composePath": [
        "folio tables",
        "day-name orthography",
        "path on calendar tokens",
        "Cage on sensational claims"
      ],
      "surfaces": {
        "visual": "/data/living-books/visual-projects.json#dresden-codex-scaffold",
        "restoration": "/data/living-books/restoration-projects.json#restore-dresden-codex"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry",
        "cage-litmus",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "historical codex; use library/museum open images only",
      "nextCuts": [
        "IIIF folio pack",
        "glyph-stream experiment (Declaration-class)"
      ],
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Wikipedia Dresden Codex",
          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Codex"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "codex",
        "astronomy",
        "scaffold"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "madrid-codex",
      "title": "Madrid Codex (Tro-Cortesianus)",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "postclassic-maya",
      "region": "mesoamerica",
      "culture": "maya",
      "script": "maya-hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "bark-paper-codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1400,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Longest surviving Maya codex — almanacs, ritual calendars.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "museum holdings · open images when available",
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "codex",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "paris-codex",
      "title": "Paris Codex (Peresianus)",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "postclassic-maya",
      "region": "mesoamerica",
      "culture": "maya",
      "script": "maya-hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "bark-paper-codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1400,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Fragmentary Maya codex with zodiac / katun pages.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "BnF holdings · open images when available",
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "codex",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "grolier-maya-codex",
      "title": "Maya Codex of Mexico (Grolier)",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "postclassic-maya",
      "region": "mesoamerica",
      "culture": "maya",
      "script": "maya-hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "bark-paper-codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1100,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Authenticated Venus almanac codex fragment — Cage-ready provenance history.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "rights": "museum · cite scholarly consensus",
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "codex",
        "venus",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "san-bartolo-murals",
      "title": "San Bartolo murals · preclassic Maya writing",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "preclassic-maya",
      "region": "guatemala",
      "culture": "maya",
      "script": "maya-hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "mural"
      ],
      "yearHint": -100,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Early Maya mural writing at San Bartolo — same project landscape as Xultun.",
      "relatedProjects": [
        "xultun-sak-tahn-waax"
      ],
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "paleography",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "mural",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "popol-vuh",
      "title": "Popol Vuh manuscripts · K'iche' creation",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "colonial-mesoamerica",
      "region": "guatemala",
      "culture": "kiche-maya",
      "script": "latin-transcription",
      "media": [
        "manuscript",
        "pd-translation"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1550,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Colonial-era transcription of K'iche' narrative; PD translations for path geometry + mythology crosswalk.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "PD translations only; honor modern K'iche' communities",
      "tags": [
        "maya",
        "mythology",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "herculaneum-vesuvius-challenge",
      "title": "Herculaneum papyri · Vesuvius Challenge virtual unwrapping",
      "status": "scaffold",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "hellenistic-roman",
      "region": "italy",
      "culture": "greco-roman",
      "script": "greek",
      "media": [
        "carbonized-papyrus",
        "xray-ct",
        "ml-ink-detection"
      ],
      "yearHint": -50,
      "discoveryYear": 2026,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Carbonized Villa of the Papyri scrolls. 2024–2026 breakthroughs: ink detection, full unwrapping of PHerc. 1667, new Philodemus books. Declaration-class: stream of recovered columns → path + Cage.",
      "names": [
        {
          "name": "Philodemus of Gadara",
          "role": "author (ancient)",
          "note": "Epicurean texts recovered"
        },
        {
          "name": "Brent Seales",
          "role": "virtual unwrapping (modern)",
          "note": "cite-out"
        }
      ],
      "composePath": [
        "CT volume",
        "virtual unwrap columns",
        "Greek orthography path",
        "Cage on disputed readings"
      ],
      "surfaces": {
        "restoration": "/data/living-books/restoration-projects.json#restore-herculaneum",
        "visual": "/data/living-books/visual-projects.json#herculaneum-scaffold"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "paleography",
        "path-geometry",
        "cage-litmus",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "challenge open data + museum CT; no pirate commercial editions",
      "nextCuts": [
        "ingest open prize passages as living-book pages",
        "Greek path capsule"
      ],
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Vesuvius Challenge",
          "url": "https://scrollprize.org/"
        },
        {
          "label": "UK 2026 breakthrough",
          "url": "https://uknow.uky.edu/research/day-herculaneum-scrolls-began-speaking-again"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "herculaneum",
        "papyrus",
        "greek",
        "ml-restoration",
        "2026-discovery",
        "scaffold"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dead-sea-scrolls",
      "title": "Dead Sea Scrolls · Leon Levy Digital Library",
      "status": "scaffold",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "second-temple",
      "region": "levant",
      "culture": "jewish",
      "script": "hebrew-aramaic",
      "media": [
        "parchment",
        "papyrus",
        "spectral-imaging"
      ],
      "yearHint": -200,
      "discoveryYear": 1947,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Qumran fragment corpus + Great Isaiah Scroll. Digital spectral library; 2025 AI dating refresh. Multi-layer zoom + path on Hebrew tokens.",
      "composePath": [
        "spectral layers",
        "fragment assembly notes",
        "path geometry",
        "Cage on sensational finds"
      ],
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry",
        "cage-litmus",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "rights": "IAA / museum digital library terms",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Leon Levy DSS Digital Library",
          "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "qumran",
        "hebrew",
        "scaffold",
        "spectral"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rosetta-stone",
      "title": "Rosetta Stone · trilingual decree",
      "status": "scaffold",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "ptolemaic",
      "region": "egypt",
      "culture": "egyptian-hellenistic",
      "script": "hieroglyphic-demotic-greek",
      "media": [
        "granodiorite-stele"
      ],
      "yearHint": -196,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Trilingual calibration object — KBatch Rosetta lab natural anchor + paleography + world-path languages.",
      "surfaces": {
        "lab": "/labs/rosetta.html"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "rosetta",
        "path-geometry",
        "world-path",
        "cage-litmus"
      ],
      "rights": "British Museum images under their terms · text PD",
      "tags": [
        "egypt",
        "trilingual",
        "scaffold",
        "calibration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "voynich-manuscript",
      "title": "Voynich Manuscript · Beinecke MS 408",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "medieval-early-modern",
      "region": "europe",
      "culture": "unknown",
      "script": "unknown-voynich",
      "media": [
        "vellum",
        "cipher-or-unknown"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1420,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Undeciphered codex — Cage litmus playground (FICTION traps vs RAW imaging). No auto-decipher claims.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "rights": "Beinecke open images",
      "tags": [
        "undeciphered",
        "cage",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "archimedes-palimpsest",
      "title": "Archimedes Palimpsest",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "classical-medieval",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "culture": "greek",
      "script": "greek",
      "media": [
        "palimpsest",
        "multispectral"
      ],
      "yearHint": 975,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Undertext math recovered via multi-spectral imaging — sibling method to Declaration UV layers.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "paleography",
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "greek",
        "math",
        "multispectral",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "codex-sinaiticus",
      "title": "Codex Sinaiticus",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "late-antique",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "culture": "christian",
      "script": "greek-uncial",
      "media": [
        "parchment-codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 350,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "4th-c. Greek biblical codex with multi-institution digital edition.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "codexsinaiticus.org",
          "url": "https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "greek",
        "bible",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "linear-b-tablets",
      "title": "Linear B tablets · Knossos / Pylos",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "bronze-age",
      "region": "aegean",
      "culture": "mycenaean",
      "script": "linear-b",
      "media": [
        "clay-tablet"
      ],
      "yearHint": -1400,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Administrative syllabic script — name lists + commodity geometry. Ventris decipherment story as Cage/education.",
      "names": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Ventris",
          "role": "decipherer (modern)",
          "note": "cite-out"
        }
      ],
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "open-names",
        "rosetta"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bronze-age",
        "syllabary",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "behistun-inscription",
      "title": "Behistun Inscription · Darius trilingual",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "achaemenid",
      "region": "iran",
      "culture": "persian",
      "script": "old-persian-elamite-akkadian",
      "media": [
        "rock-relief"
      ],
      "yearHint": -520,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Trilingual rock text that unlocked cuneiform — Rosetta-class calibration object.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "rosetta",
        "path-geometry",
        "world-path"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cuneiform",
        "trilingual",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oxyrhynchus-papyri",
      "title": "Oxyrhynchus Papyri",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "greco-roman-egypt",
      "region": "egypt",
      "culture": "greco-egyptian",
      "script": "greek-coptic",
      "media": [
        "papyrus-fragments"
      ],
      "yearHint": 200,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Huge fragment corpus (literature, documents). Stream packing like Declaration lines.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "restoration",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "papyrus",
        "greek",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nag-hammadi",
      "title": "Nag Hammadi library",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "late-antique",
      "region": "egypt",
      "culture": "coptic-gnostic",
      "script": "coptic",
      "media": [
        "codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 350,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Coptic codices (Gospel of Thomas etc.) — PD translations for path + mythology/philosophy crosswalk.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "restoration",
        "path-geometry",
        "mythology-crosswalk"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "coptic",
        "codex",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "gilgamesh-tablets",
      "title": "Epic of Gilgamesh tablets",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "mesopotamian",
      "region": "mesopotamia",
      "culture": "sumerian-akkadian",
      "script": "cuneiform",
      "media": [
        "clay-tablet"
      ],
      "yearHint": -1800,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Standard Babylonian epic tablets — PD translations + name orthography.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "cuneiform",
        "epic",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "code-hammurabi",
      "title": "Code of Hammurabi stele",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "old-babylonian",
      "region": "mesopotamia",
      "culture": "babylonian",
      "script": "cuneiform",
      "media": [
        "basalt-stele"
      ],
      "yearHint": -1750,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Law stele as public orthography object — declaration-class public text.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "open-names"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "law",
        "cuneiform",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pyramid-texts",
      "title": "Pyramid Texts · Old Kingdom",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "old-kingdom",
      "region": "egypt",
      "culture": "egyptian",
      "script": "hieroglyphic",
      "media": [
        "tomb-inscription"
      ],
      "yearHint": -2400,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Earliest extensive religious corpus on stone — line packs + deity names.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "egypt",
        "hieroglyph",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "amarna-letters",
      "title": "Amarna letters",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "new-kingdom",
      "region": "egypt-levant",
      "culture": "international-bronze-age",
      "script": "akkadian-cuneiform",
      "media": [
        "clay-tablet"
      ],
      "yearHint": -1350,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Diplomatic archive — name network for AnCEstory antiquity layer.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "open-names",
        "path-geometry",
        "ancestory"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diplomacy",
        "cuneiform",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ebla-tablets",
      "title": "Ebla tablets",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "bronze-age",
      "region": "syria",
      "culture": "eblaite",
      "script": "cuneiform",
      "media": [
        "clay-tablet"
      ],
      "yearHint": -2500,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Palace archive of early Syrian city-state — lexicon + name lists.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "open-names",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archive",
        "cuneiform",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dunhuang-manuscripts",
      "title": "Dunhuang (Library Cave) manuscripts",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "medieval-central-asia",
      "region": "china-silk-road",
      "culture": "multi-script-silk-road",
      "script": "chinese-sogdian-tibetan-etc",
      "media": [
        "paper-scroll",
        "codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 800,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Multi-script Silk Road corpus — world-path + layout matrix fuel.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "world-path",
        "path-geometry",
        "deep-zoom"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "silk-road",
        "multi-script",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "diamond-sutra",
      "title": "Diamond Sutra · dated 868 print",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "tang",
      "region": "china",
      "culture": "buddhist-chinese",
      "script": "chinese",
      "media": [
        "woodblock-print"
      ],
      "yearHint": 868,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "World's earliest complete dated printed book (BL) — deep-zoom + path on Chinese tokens.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "print",
        "chinese",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "orkhon-inscriptions",
      "title": "Orkhon runic inscriptions",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "early-medieval",
      "region": "mongolia",
      "culture": "turkic",
      "script": "old-turkic-runiform",
      "media": [
        "stone-stele"
      ],
      "yearHint": 720,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Old Turkic public inscriptions — rare script path geometry.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "world-path"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "runiform",
        "turkic",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ogham-stones",
      "title": "Ogham stones · early Irish",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "early-medieval",
      "region": "ireland-britain",
      "culture": "gaeilge",
      "script": "ogham",
      "media": [
        "stone"
      ],
      "yearHint": 400,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Edge-cut name inscriptions — letter-atom / stroke geometry playground.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "letter-atom",
        "path-geometry",
        "open-names"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ogham",
        "celtic",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "elder-futhark-runestones",
      "title": "Elder Futhark / Viking runestones",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "migration-viking",
      "region": "scandinavia",
      "culture": "norse",
      "script": "runic",
      "media": [
        "stone"
      ],
      "yearHint": 800,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Public name/memorial texts — Codex Regius sibling culture + path on runic romanization.",
      "relatedProjects": [
        "codex-regius-gks2365"
      ],
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "open-names"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "runes",
        "norse",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "magna-carta",
      "title": "Magna Carta 1215",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "medieval",
      "region": "england",
      "culture": "anglo-norman",
      "script": "latin",
      "media": [
        "parchment"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1215,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Constitutional parchment — Declaration-class public law text with museum scans.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "paleography",
        "path-geometry",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "law",
        "parchment",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "domesday-book",
      "title": "Domesday Book",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "medieval",
      "region": "england",
      "culture": "norman",
      "script": "latin",
      "media": [
        "parchment-codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1086,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Survey codex — place-name orthography mesh for open-names + AnCEstory.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "open-names",
        "path-geometry",
        "ancestory"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "survey",
        "names",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bayeux-tapestry",
      "title": "Bayeux Tapestry",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "medieval",
      "region": "normandy",
      "culture": "norman",
      "script": "latin-captions",
      "media": [
        "embroidery",
        "caption-stream"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1070,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Narrative caption stream along embroidery — glyph/word stream like Declaration lines.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "path-geometry",
        "deep-zoom"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "visual",
        "captions",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "antikythera-mechanism",
      "title": "Antikythera mechanism inscriptions",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "hellenistic",
      "region": "greece",
      "culture": "greek",
      "script": "greek",
      "media": [
        "bronze-inscription",
        "xray"
      ],
      "yearHint": -100,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Astronomical device + recovered Greek inscriptions — science orthography + Cage on modern myths.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "astronomy",
        "greek",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "phaistos-disc",
      "title": "Phaistos Disc",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "minoan",
      "region": "crete",
      "culture": "minoan",
      "script": "unknown-phaistos",
      "media": [
        "clay-disc"
      ],
      "yearHint": -1700,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Undeciphered stamped spiral — Cage + letter-grid experimental geometry only; no decode claims.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "letter-grid"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "undeciphered",
        "cage",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "rongorongo",
      "title": "Rongorongo tablets · Rapa Nui",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "pre-contact-pacific",
      "region": "rapa-nui",
      "culture": "rapa-nui",
      "script": "rongorongo",
      "media": [
        "wood-tablet"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1800,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Undeciphered Pacific script — honor community; educational geometry only.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "rights": "cultural sensitivity · no commercial scrape",
      "tags": [
        "undeciphered",
        "pacific",
        "honor",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "indus-script-seals",
      "title": "Indus Valley script seals",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "bronze-age",
      "region": "south-asia",
      "culture": "harappan",
      "script": "indus",
      "media": [
        "seal"
      ],
      "yearHint": -2000,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Undeciphered seal corpus — Cage + short glyph path experiments; no auto-decipher.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "undeciphered",
        "bronze-age",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cascajal-block",
      "title": "Cascajal Block · Olmec",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 3,
      "era": "formative-mesoamerica",
      "region": "mexico",
      "culture": "olmec",
      "script": "possible-olmec",
      "media": [
        "serpentine-block"
      ],
      "yearHint": -900,
      "pattern": "declaration",
      "summary": "Possible earliest Mesoamerican writing block — Cage-heavy claims; sibling to Maya script lineage.",
      "relatedProjects": [
        "xultun-sak-tahn-waax",
        "san-bartolo-murals"
      ],
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "cage-litmus",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "mesoamerica",
        "early-writing",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "florentine-codex",
      "title": "Florentine Codex · Sahagún",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "colonial-mesoamerica",
      "region": "mexico",
      "culture": "nahua-spanish",
      "script": "nahuatl-spanish",
      "media": [
        "manuscript",
        "illustration"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1577,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Encyclopedic Nahua knowledge in bilingual manuscript — path + mythology; rights-careful images.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "path-geometry",
        "world-path"
      ],
      "rights": "library open images when available · no pirate",
      "tags": [
        "nahua",
        "colonial",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "codex-mendoza",
      "title": "Codex Mendoza",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "colonial-mesoamerica",
      "region": "mexico",
      "culture": "nahua-spanish",
      "script": "pictorial-nahuatl-spanish",
      "media": [
        "manuscript"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1541,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Aztec tribute / daily life pictorial codex with Spanish glosses.",
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "deep-zoom",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nahua",
        "pictorial",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "beowulf-nowell",
      "title": "Beowulf · Nowell Codex (Cotton Vitellius A.xv)",
      "status": "scaffold",
      "tier": 1,
      "era": "early-medieval",
      "region": "england",
      "culture": "anglo-saxon",
      "script": "old-english",
      "media": [
        "parchment-codex",
        "fire-damage"
      ],
      "yearHint": 1000,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "OE epic manuscript with fire damage — restoration track already open in living-books + PD text.",
      "surfaces": {
        "restoration": "/data/living-books/restoration-projects.json#restore-beowulf"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "restoration",
        "path-geometry",
        "paleography"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "old-english",
        "epic",
        "scaffold"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "iliad-venetus-a",
      "title": "Iliad · Venetus A and Homeric tradition",
      "status": "open",
      "tier": 2,
      "era": "classical-byzantine",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "culture": "greek",
      "script": "greek",
      "media": [
        "parchment-codex"
      ],
      "yearHint": 900,
      "pattern": "codex",
      "summary": "Primary medieval Iliad witness tradition + PD translations for path.",
      "surfaces": {
        "restoration": "/data/living-books/restoration-projects.json#restore-iliad"
      },
      "kbatchHooks": [
        "restoration",
        "mythology-crosswalk",
        "path-geometry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "greek",
        "epic",
        "open"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "visual": "data/living-books/visual-projects.json",
    "scholarNames": "data/antiquity/scholar-names.json",
    "lexicon": "data/antiquity/lexicon-seed.json",
    "antiquityOpen": "data/ancestory/antiquity-open.json",
    "declaration": "data/declaration/",
    "livingBooks": "labs/living-books.html",
    "rosetta": "labs/rosetta.html",
    "museum": "museum.html",
    "forAi": "for-ai.html"
  }
}