A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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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