Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, according to a recently published study.

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Eiko Ishibashi's latest album, Antigone, finds Greek myths inspiring dystopian soundtracks to the 21st century ...

[1] For most people, gourds are for eating, not for making music. In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories of instruments ... generic scenes from ancient China, while others ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

Ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts found in the biblical city of Megiddo. Credit: Immanuel Giel / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have discovered new evidence at the ancient city of Megiddo in northern ...

These six forgotten instruments once defined musical traditions ... unmatched by most string instruments. Dating back to the Sangam era (over 2,000 years ago), the Yazh was the Tamil equivalent of a ...

The layer with Egyptian and Greek pottery fragments described in the latest study is among several layers that date from after 732 B.C., when records indicate Megiddo was conquered by the Neo ...

Credit: Stavros CC BY 2.0 Imagine the warriors of Greece’s Sparta, once the most feared soldiers in the ancient world, reduced to performing for crowds of Roman tourists. This isn’t fiction—it’s the ...

Music can come from surprising places—even zoo animal enclosures. One group of (human) performers is proving that you don’t even need conventional instruments to make melodies. The Vienna ...