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News: June/July 2024

Last days of Plato revealed in new scroll • Philosophy dept chair arrested at protest • No future for Future of Humanity Institute — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Plato News

The combination of a 2,000 year old papyrus scroll and cutting edge scanning technology has yielded new information about Plato’s last days and death. We now know that he was buried in the garden of his Athens academy. The information was recorded on a papyrus scroll found in the ruins of Herculaneum, according to a statement from Italy’s National Research Council. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E.

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