Category Archives: Archaeology

2,300 year old musical instrument comes to life

Posted on 03/30/2012 by Zed

The broken and burnt remains of the 2,300 year old lyre instrument. Photo credit: PastHorizons. Archaeologists have found the remains of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe. The broken and burn fragment of the lyre instrument was … Continue reading →

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Amazing Russian Petroglyphs

Posted on 03/19/2012 by Zed

6,000 year old petroglyphs were found in the Lake Kanozero area. Drawing by Jan Magne Gjerde. In 2005 Jan Magne Gjerde, project manager at the Tromsø University Museum, drove more than 3000 miles east to Lake Kanozero, to document some of the oldest … Continue reading →