Herculaneum papyri reveal Plato's burial place and shed light on his last hours

- ...[Plato] was lucid enough to criticise the barbarian musician for her "scant sense of rhythm", in front of a Chaldean guest who had come from Mesopotamia..."

"I wish that my musical talents be such as to be remembered across the far ends of the world, even two thousand years hereafter..." [monkey's paw twitches]