Queen Puabi's Llyre Discovered
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•Queen Puabi's lyre: A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 years ago
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Queen Puabi's lyre is a decorated wooden harp or lyre found in an elite grave in Mesopotamia .
It is one of four lyres that were found in a large, elite tomb in southern Iraq .
At about 4,500 years old , these harps are the world's oldest stringed instruments ever discovered.
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