Recently discovered, the earliest dated English scientific instrument is going under the hammer at Christie's auction house in London on Wednesday. The palm-sized copper-alloy "horary quadrant," which ...

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When it comes to string instruments, guitars are passé, mandolins are too hip, and banjos…no thanks. Listeners of discernment choose an ancient Mesopotamian lyre. Fortunately, lyre-of-ur.com is here ...

ROME — When archaeologist Giovanni Carboni first came upon the oddly shaped ceramic object during an excavation in a Roman suburb in 2006, he was baffled. “I said — please don’t write this, though, ...

Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated ...

_____Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFPBiruktawit Tasew's fingers glide over the strings of the begena, producing a deep, hypnotic sound. Along with six fellow musicians, she breaks into a solemn religious ...

If you want to feel connected to ancient history, just take a look at your shoes, listen to some music played on a flute or take a sip of wine—it turns out that some of the oldest items humans have ...