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Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

• xchip 2y ago
  "in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses"
  • joelfried 2y ago
    Lat: 37.983761, Lon: 23.727845
• herunan 2y ago
  The Vesuvius Challenge is the gift that keeps on giving. It still blows my mind that we can now use ML to reveal texts of unopened carbonised scrolls from over 2000 years ago. There was a fascinating HN post on this a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861
• unraveller 2y ago
  Any guesses for what the epitaph on his headstone will read? perhaps "I'm pretty sure that Socrates knew nothing"