User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/''The Mark of Athena'' Plot Holes/@comment-153.107.33.154-20121014210633/@comment-3146930-20121014230636

Maybe the only character he can instantly recognize is his own name, but if he at least picked up a few characters, he may recognize them after seeing them. On the other hand, he said a Chinese tourist marked it on Google Maps, maybe he used Google Translate. But that is a stretch.