Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
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Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
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The Bull Headed Lyre is one of the oldest string instruments ever discovered. The lyre was excavated in the Royal Cemetery at Ur during the 1926–1927 season of an archeological dig carried out in what is now Iraq jointly by the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum. Leonard Woolley led the excavations. The lyre was found in “The King’s Grave”, near the bodies of more than sixty soldiers and attendants. It is one of several lyres and harps unearthed at the cemetery which date to the E
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One of the oldest stringed instruments ever discovered
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Headed_Lyre_of_Ur
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2024-04-18T04:20:53Z
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