The history books must be rewritten.
Scientists researching the contents of the Herculaneum papyrus scrolls, born more than eighteen hundred years ago, shed light on exactly where they were buried Plato in the area of the Academy of Athens, he writes Graziano Ranocchiabased on Tuesday’s statement by an expert from the University of Pisa, the MTI.
The scrolls were made in the 18th century. century, it was found in a charred state in the Villa dei Papiri, i.e. the House of the Papyri, in the area of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. In 79, when Vesuvius erupted, the settlement was covered by a fiery cloud, and the ash covered and buried everything in the city. This helped and also made it difficult to read the notes, since the ashes preserved them on the one hand, but on the other hand, they became so fragile due to carbonization that it was impossible to unroll them.
For this very reason, researchers are now trying to read the ancient texts using the imaging process called optical coherence tomography and the innovative method of infrared spectroscopy – Nottingham Trent University in England made its mobile laboratory available to the researchers for the tests, and the attempts were crowned with success, as it turned out :
in BC The ancient Greek philosopher, who died in 347, was buried on the grounds of the Academy, in a private garden reserved for him, next to the Sanctuary of the Muses.
The deciphered texts also shed light on the fact that Plato
or BC He was sold into slavery on the island of Aegina in 404, when it was conquered by the Spartans, or five years later, B.C. In 399, directly Socrates after his death,
thus, history books and research results on the subject can be rewritten with peace of mind, since until now experts believed that
the man B.C. In 387 he was enslaved in Sicily, Dionysius I in the court of a tyrant.
