Musicians in Mesopotamia were well-trained and were a recognized professional class. Almost immediately after I started a video that played the ancient music, my six year old son asked me if he ...

We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems likely that some were originally songs of a sort. We have the words, but the music was either not written down or is lost.

The royal tombs of Ur revealed Mesopotamia's golden splendor. ... Next to it, a gold sack contained a set of musical instruments also made of gold.

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago.