A gold bull's head graced the front of the lyre ... and loosening the strings attached to the top pegs. These lyres from Ur show that the Mesopotamians had musical technology that was cutting ...

The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur. Each lyre had a different animal head protruding from the front of the sound box to denote its pitch: the bull lyre was bass, the ...

At Ur, Woolley found royal tombs which themselves ... there were sumptuous headdresses; a lyre of gold and lapis lazuli; the world's earliest known board-game - and a mysterious object, which ...

At Ur, Woolley found royal tombs which themselves ... there were sumptuous headdresses; a lyre of gold and lapis lazuli; the world's earliest known board-game - and a mysterious object, which ...