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 ...
The discovery came from Greek Schools, which aims to publish a new edition of the Review of the Philosophers by Philodemus.
Leiden University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. 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 ...
The Greek philosopher Plato—Socrates’ student and Aristotle’s teacher—died nearly 2,400 years ago, having produced a voluminous amount of writing on political philosophy, aesthetics ...
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 ...
For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum has puzzled archaeologists. Damaged by the famed eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., the scrolls had remained inscrutable — ...
What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week. → Massive 2,200-year-old tomb with grand interior unearthed in China →1,000 ...