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Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

by bifftastic on 4/25/24, 6:21 PM with 4 comments

• by herunan on 4/25/24, 11:43 PM

  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

• by unraveller on 4/26/24, 12:52 PM

  Any guesses for what the epitaph on his headstone will read? perhaps "I'm pretty sure that Socrates knew nothing"

• by xchip on 4/25/24, 7:09 PM

  "in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses"