Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they ...

For ancient Egyptians, dance was a huge part of daily life. Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments.

ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Share full article. April 30, 1876. ... This little object can hardly be less than 2,600 years old, and is probably the most ancient musical instrument in existence.

Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic musical instruments.The instruments ranged from an ancient Egyptian harp that ...

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins ...

When researchers in China discovered a series of tombs and horse burials, they saw that the archaeological site had been pillaged. One tomb, a large construction in the shape of the letter “A ...

The Society of the Ancient Instruments, whose recordings have long been treasured by chamber-music addicts, is a nonprofit labor of love. It is the creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born ...

Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years later. Ancient Chinese music features a distinctive sound, enriched by ...

An Egyptian girl plays music on oud, an ancient Arabic musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House in a historical area of Cairo. The piece she is playing is the Chinese folk song Molihua (Jasmine ...