Archeologists find remains of lyre in Scottish cave
(NEWSER) - Turns out even ancient Europeans liked subtle and complex music. Archeologists have found part of a 2,300-year-old lyre—the oldest instrument ever discovered in western Europe—inside a Scottish cave, the Daily Mail reports. The broken and burnt piece of wood "pushes the history of complex music back more than a thousand years, into our darkest pre-history," music archeologist Graeme Lawson tells the BBC . "And not only the history of music but more specifically of song and poetry, because that's what such instruments were very often used for." More»
