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 ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - What do you want to learn next fall? Sure, you can just take the prerequisites for that quantitative economics or neurobiology degree. Graduating on time: that’s a good thing, but what ...

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.

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 ...

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...

Imagine some of the world's most treasured, renowned instruments all in one room. Muse no longer. The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix will open its newest exhibition, "Treasures: Legendary ...

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 ...

Powerful grid computing has revived a stringed musical instrument that was last played in ancient Greece, Italian researchers announced at a recent conference in Catania, Sicily. Called an epigonion ...