A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found. advertisement. Live Science.

Through them I met Andy Lowings, who organized the Gold Lyre of Ur Project, which built a replica of a 4,550-year-old Mesopotamian gold lyre. He asked me to compose music for the lyre, ...

Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's head of gold and lapis lazuli adorns a lyre discovered in the tomb of Queen Puabi in Ur. Photograph courtesy of Penn Museum By Manuel Molina Martos ...

Through them I met Andy Lowings, who organised the Gold Lyre of Ur Project – which built a replica of a 4550-year-old Mesopotamian gold lyre.

Sumerian Bull Lyre, Iraq, 3200 BCE. by Stacey Rolland, '00 . The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE. Its design was developed from the harp by replacing the single bow ...

Mesopotamian Masterpieces Exquisite art and artifacts from the world’s earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... A similar bull-headed lyre, ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

Lyre player Andy Lowings, who built the instrument to be as similar as possible to the ancient variety. Stef Conner . She was guided in part by the work of music scholar Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, who ...

Today we dive into really, really old world music, roughly 4,500 year old sounds from ancient Mesopotamia. There are very few people playing and singing this music; enter The Lyre Ensemble.

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