A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found ... Ur show that the Mesopotamians had musical technology that was cutting edge ...

Among the many tragedies of the 2003 plundering of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad was the destruction of the Golden Lyre, a 4,500-year-old musical instrument originally excavated in the 1920s by ...

an ancient Greek musical instrument, which was a lyre of Hermes," he said, referring to the Greek god who, according to legend, invented the instrument. The instruments are bought by professional ...