The Anglo-Saxon lyre is one of the most iconic musical instruments of medieval Europe. Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Many replicas today are based on an artifact found at Sutton Hoo, a ...

The lyre was used by musicians as in early medieval Northern Europe, with one of the stringed instruments even being included in the famous 7th century Sutton Hoo ship burial. But now, research has ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey features Ludwig Göransson's groundbreaking score, abandoning traditional orchestras for ...

Asked if she fancied making ‘extreme early music’, Stef Conner couldn’t resist. Little did she realise how extreme. She explains how she has breathed life into a 4,000-year-old language Sometimes the ...

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...

A type of lyre found at the famous Sutton Hoo medieval ship burial from 7th century AD Suffolk, has been found thousands of miles away in Kazakhstan. This type of lyre is known from across medieval ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

More than 200 people from all over the world will converge on the Elmwood Hall at Queen's University - the home of the Ulster Orchestra - to take part in the third annual World Lyre Conference, which ...

Stef Conner is working with a group that recreated an ancient lyre and aims to recreate the song music of the 2nd millennium BC We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems ...