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Rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument 'buried in the ground' puzzles archaeologists
Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...
A 331-year-old violin was stolen from a USC student. How police recovered the $650,000 instrument
A 1694 violin that was stolen from USC on April 2 has been recovered, and a suspect has been charged with grand theft, the ...
4,000-year-old musical instrument unearthed in Oman. See the ‘rare’ finds
While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The ...
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Archaeologists Found 4,000-Year-Old Cymbals in Oman That Reveal a Lost Musical Link Between Ancient Civilizations
The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...
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These 4,200-year-old cymbals show music’s far-reaching power
Humans have been making music for millennia. By the third millennium bc, sculptures and early written records suggest that ...
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4,000-year-old musical instrument unearthed in Oman. See the ‘rare’ finds
The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument — offering a “rare window” into the past. Archaeologists began excavating Dahwa, a Bronze Age settlement, in 2014 “as part of ...