Although the full text has long been lost, it has been possible to reconstruct much of mambos 1-4 using linguistic analysis of the texts that describe so-called "ur-mambos" found in the works of Sappho, Averroes, Herodotus, and Sturluson. (Bega, 1994 'A Little Bit of Plato All Night Long: Reconstructing the Lost Mambos Through Close Reading and Computational Analysis')