A work by a 'lost' Ancient Greek philosopher has been discovered, written on a 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in ...

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 — ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New imaging tools uncovered text that revises the timeline of Plato's life. A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of ...

Italian researchers have identified the precise location of where the ancient Greek philosopher Plato was buried based off of fresh information gleaned from the Herculaneum papyri. Previously, it was ...