Why are we launching the world’s largest library of translated ancient texts? Consider that less than 3% of the Latin Renaissance has been translated to English. Latin was the main language of European intellectual society through to the 1800s — and so hundreds of thousands of books remain unscanned and untranslated — unread — and not in AI training.And then there are uncountable thousands and thousands of ancient texts in Chinese and Sanskrit and other languages. Lost knowledge…To reconnect the world with these source texts, www.SourceLibrary.org is launching in beta with 15,000+ translated books from over 50 different languages. More than half appear to be completely new translations. For scale, our word count just exceeded English Wikipedia. We have hundreds of thousands of images —- and everything is searchable.It is also nearly totally free. These texts are all Creative Commons share-alike and accessible via MCP or API. So if you use AI, you can benefit from your AI having actual ...