A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...

Chennai-based craftsman Tharun Sekar has revived the 2000-year-old Yazh, a forgotten Tamil harp, through deep research, ...

BCE, a poetess named Sappho lived on a rocky Greek island far out in the Aegean Sea. She wrote about her love for women in ...

A pedestrian who spotted a strange arrangement of stones wound up helping archaeologists rediscover an Ancient Roman building. The find was announced by the Swiss canton of Solothurn on Facebook ...

Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic ...

Ancient “propaganda” that was used to support the Egyptian pharaoh who is believed to be a major character of the Old Testament has been spotted in Paris, according to an expert. Jean ...

A team of researchers from the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group has provided fresh insight into the genetic landscape of Spain. The work, led by Ph.D. researcher Gonzalo ...

He collected the instruments, and he can even play most of them. This is his prize, an ancient Egyptian harp dating back to 1500 BC. It's made of the wood of the almond tree, now extinct ...

"The Sacred Harp" is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. Now, it's getting an update. Sung in four-part harmony ...