It's often called the world's universal language, but when did we start making musical instruments? Well, you'd probably be surprised to know that the earliest artifacts fashioned to produce a ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

Some of the earliest stringed instruments known were harps and ... across Eurasia having been used by Pythagoras in the 3rd millennium BCE to codify musical mathematics. Later, Islamic scholars built ...