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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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