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,” likely ...

Visitors look at musical instruments during an exhibition themed on various music cultures along the ancient Silk Road at Guangzhou Maritime Museum in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov.

An exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix features some of China's earliest known musical instruments, the oldest dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. Experts analyzing instruments in ...

A handful of unnaturally elongated stones sat on display at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve museum for decades with no one ever knowing exactly what they were. Many were too big and ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan’s state motto translates to, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” Replace peninsula with museums, and that pretty well describes the University of Michigan in ...

Humans played the very first instruments thousands of years ago — 42,000 or 43,000 years ago, to be as exact as possible. The oldest known instruments are flutes carved from bird bone and mammoth ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of ancient musical instruments from the tombs of Yue State noblemen in east China's Jiangsu Province. Among the discoveries are rare clay instruments ...

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...

A collection of ancient jaw harps dating back some 4,000 years ago were unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, archaeologists announced at a press conference Monday. More than 20 ancient jaw ...