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Skye cave find western Europe's 'earliest string instrument'

This is the bridge of a 2,300 year old lyre. It is considered to be the earliest string instrument found so far in Western Europe. It comes from High Pasture Cave in Skye. According to the BBC, the earliest known lyres are about 5,000 years old, and of Mesopotamian origin. Although string instruments have been pictured in early Celtic art, this is the first physical piece ever found.

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'Europe's oldest stringed instrument' discovered on Scots island

Archaeologists have found what could be the remains of Europe's oldest stringed instrument. A small wooden fragment thought to be from a 2300-year-old lyre was found at an excavation site in High Pasture Cave on the isle of Skye, Hebrides, Scotland

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Archaeologists excavating the High Pasture Cave on the Isle of Skye have discovered a wooden fragment that they believe came from a lyre or similar stringed instrument. The fragment was burned and part of it broken off, but you can clearly see the carved string notches that identify it as a bridge. Dated to between 550 and 450 B.C., which would make the bridge a fragment of the oldest stringed instrument found in Europe.

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V -order (top) and R back its (below) is made entirely from A carved horn T ross inger L eggs after the R estaurierung. Have been preserved as well as the W irbel and also the first time L eggs footbridge made of willow wood (not shown). Picture from: Barbara Theune-Grosskopf, The Lyre completely preserved of the 6th Century from Trossingen, district of Tuttlingen.

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Music Egyptian lyre, A total of three different kinds of lyres have been discovered from ancient Egypt. They were categorized according to their sizes ranging from a thin lyre to a thick one and then the giant lyre. They were initially developed in Syria back in 2500 BC and made their way to Egypt by 1900 BC.

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Trois bustes découverts dans une résidence monumentale des IIe et Ier siècles avant notre ère à Paule (Côtes-d'Armor) en 1988. Brûlées lors d'un incendie, ces sculptures sont des effigies d'ancêtres dont on a voulu conserver la mémoire. Le personnage en haut à droite tient une lyre dans ses mains, indiquant qu'il s'agit d'un barde.

Trois bustes découverts dans une résidence monumentale des IIe et Ier siècles avant notre ère à Paule (Côtes-d'Armor) en 1988. Brûlées lors d'un incendie, ces sculptures sont des effigies d'ancêtres dont on a voulu conserver la mémoire. Le personnage en haut à droite tient en lyre dans ses mains, indiquant qu'il s'agit d'un barde ...

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La statue à la lyre retrouvée dans les fouilles de la forteresse de Paule. IIè siècle avant JC.

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gusli 9-string with an opening Novgorod Finding XIII c. layer