Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

When it comes to string instruments, guitars are passé, mandolins are too hip, and banjos…no thanks. Listeners of discernment choose an ancient Mesopotamian lyre. Fortunately, lyre-of-ur.com is here ...

The Anglo-Saxon lyre is one of the most iconic musical instruments of medieval Europe. Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Many replicas today are based on an artifact found at Sutton Hoo, a ...

Nestled within the historic lanes of ancient Huitong Village, in Zhuhai, a city in South China's Guangdong Province, the ...

A replica of an ancient lyre which was damaged during unrest in Iraq has been built by enthusiasts in Cambridgeshire. The instrument, similar to a small harp, was made around 4,550 years ago but was ...

More than 200 people from all over the world will converge on the Elmwood Hall at Queen's University - the home of the Ulster Orchestra - to take part in the third annual World Lyre Conference, which ...

More than 200 people from 16 different countries are converging on Belfast for Lyre 2006. The international event, which revolves around the musical instrument, takes place over six days, beginning on ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...

A replica of an ancient lyre, which was damaged when the museum of Baghdad was looted during the Iraq war in 2003, has been built by enthusiasts in Cambridgeshire.