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.

To play their replica lyre, they needed music, so they turned to Kilmer, an international authority on ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian music. Through her British colleagues, Kilmer was ...

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.

So were the earliest songs. The oldest surviving piece of recorded music is a hymn to the Mesopotamian goddess of fertility Nikkal, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet dating to about 1400 BCE.

Mesopotamia was located between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the Middle East. That's where Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey are today. Have you ever wondered why there are 60 seconds in a ...

However, a team of archaeologists employing new techniques have done exactly that, tracking down what they’ve determined are beer residues in Mesopotamian clay cups that are almost 2,500 years old.

The area was called The Land Between Two Rivers, or Mesopotamia. Around 3,500 years BC the Sumerian people would develop a distinct river valley culture with several large cities. Each city was ...

Mud brick was the most common building material in Mesopotamia, until the advent of modern concrete. Baked bricks were only used for major projects such as the arch at Ctesiphon, just outside ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

an ancient city in Mesopotamia that is now part of Iraq. The artifact, called Queen Puabi's lyre, is one of four lyres that Woolley discovered in one large, elite tomb; the others have been dubbed ...

In about 2,000 BC they contributed to the overthrow of the dominant Third Dynasty of Ur, and established a series of small kingdoms all over Mesopotamia. Under King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC), the ...