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Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash
Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy….