Oldest music
Czech archeologist Bratislav Vachala, leading a dig to excavate a tomb near Cairo in Egypt, has discovered what is thought to be a love song, well over 4,000 years old, possibly the result of an unknown composer's delight in a woman's beauty. Dating from the period in which the pyramids were built, the song - probably the oldest known written music - was discovered at Abu Sir, drawn in hieroglyphs on the walls of the tomb of Inti, a nobleman who lived at the end of Egypt's so-called Old Kingdom.
Posted: 15 December 2000
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