A team of Italian scientists led by Graziano Ranocchia, a papyrologist at the University of Pisa, has announced the discovery of the burial site of the famous philosopher Plato in Athens using artificial intelligence techniques.

The exact location of Plato’s burial was calculated by analyzing ancient papyrus discovered in the lost city of Herculaneum near Naples, ‘Arkeonews’ reported.

The papyri were found in the eighteenth century, contain more than 1,800 manuscripts, and the manuscripts are preserved in a library belonging to a luxury villa in Herculaneum.

For the first time, artificial intelligence technology was used to read papyrus, and it helped to recognize the largest percentage of text, and this discovery was made while solving papyrus codes that tell the “history of the academy” of Philodymus wall.
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