The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE. Its design was developed from the harp by replacing the single bow shape with two upright arms joined by a crossbar, and the ...

These techniques, in fact, were invented thousands of years ago by the leaders of the Ancient World ... was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

This is a recreation of Queen Shub-Ad's harp, an artifact unearthed early this century from the Sumerian Royal Cemetery at Ur. It is the oldest known example of the true triangular harp, which evolved ...

Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept of chimeras and regularly used them in everyday art, their understanding ... with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Historians believe that beer was available and consumed by everyone in ancient Mesopotamian ... as depicted in Sumerian pictographs and art. (Once beer started to be bought and sold, however ...

The discovery, first reported by the Observer earlier this week, was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more ...