A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found. Skip to main ... A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 ...

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 ...

Mesopotamia (say “mess-oh-put-ay-me-ah ... The statue on the right is a human-headed winged bull from Assyria, Louvre Museum. (Photo by Ninara licensed CC BY 2.0 via Flickr) ...

Between Two Rivers Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W. Norton (US, 12 August)). A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land ...

Lead bull figurine (left); Mesopotamian foundation peg (right) In southern Turkey’s Amuq Valley, a curious one-inch-tall lead figurine unearthed at a rural Bronze Age site is giving ...

This is a companion volume and sequel to Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict, c. 3500-1600 BC. "Funded by a gift from Raymond and Beverly Sackler." Published for the Trustees of the ...