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Saturday, October 5, 2019

Secrets of Ancient Greek scroll on Plato’s Academy revealed via infrared imagining

The scroll of the history of Plato’s Academy written on a 2,000-year-old papyrus has revealed its last secrets. Applying modern imagining technology, scholars found out that the papyrus had writing also on the back. The scroll is one of more than 1,800 papyri found in the Herculaneum Villa of the Papyri, in the 18th century, … The post Secrets of Ancient Greek scroll on Plato’s Academy revealed via infrared imagining appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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