Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...
Ancient scroll found at Mount Vesuvius reveals details of Plato’s final hours - Scientists use scanners to read about 1,000 ...
So far, researchers have identified 1,000 words, or roughly 30% of Philodemus’s text. The deciphered text reveals that Plato was buried in a private garden reserved for him within the Academy in ...
The discovery came from Greek Schools, which aims to publish a new edition of the Review of the Philosophers by Philodemus.
The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest. Graziano Ranocchia, a philosopher at the University of Pisa, and ...
For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum has puzzled archaeologists. Damaged by the famed ...
The fact is, we don't know how accurate records were mostly because of the destruction of the library at Alexandria. Click to expand... Interestingly, this is one of those examples of a myth ...
The mystery of Plato’s final resting place appears to have been solved after advanced scanning techniques dubbed a “bionic eye” were able to penetrate a 2,000-year-old carbonised scroll.
Plato of Athens (429-347BC) may be one of the most famous philosophers of all times. He was the thinker who came up with the “theory of forms” and founded the first academic institution. Yet we know ...
Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...