The oldest playable instruments are red-crowned crane-bone flutes from Chinaβs Neolithic Age and in Tibet thigh-bone trumpets (rkangling) and skull drums (damaru) were used.
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Skull lyres, thought to be from Ethiopia, are rare, scarcely documented and found only in museums. While some have suggested a symbolic or clandestine ritual use for these lyres, there is no known tradition. Most likely it is a sensational item made for the nineteenth-century European market.
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The bronze wind chime phallus once hung at the entrance of a large home in the ancient Roman city of Viminacium. Ilija DankoviΔ/Archaeological InstituteThis phallic wind chime is similar to others that have been found from the same period. Archaeologists …
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The nearly 10-foot stone statue was discovered near Ak-Bulun village in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty ImagesThe stone statues known as Balbal served as memorials and were often used as grave markers by early inhabitants …
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The majority of the text on this page came from historical descriptions that were included in various listings at Heritage Auctions. The discovery of gold in northern California in January 1848 was a transformative event for California itself, the nation, …
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A new species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in the 1990s in northeastern Utah and Wyoming,Β the United States. A group of Allosaurus jimmadseni attacks a juvenile sauropod dinosaur. Image credit: …
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Gastornis was also discovered in Wyoming but scientists confirm finding of fossils on Ellesmere island as bird thought to migrate during dark Arctic winters A giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horseβs roamed the Arctic 53m years ago when …
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