Listen to the Lyre of Ur, a 4,500 year-old musical instrument

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You shut your dirty pie hole.

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Is it supposed to have more strings?

On edit: According to the website, apparently not. Huh. It really seems like it was made to accommodate more strings.

The pinwheel hat is fucking awesome! I so want her to stick her head out the car window.

Are we sure Chaldean music consisted of out-of-tune drones? If I was Gilgamesh I would have offered a handsome prize to the goatherd who could improve the damn things.

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The reconstruction of the lyre is impressive but like the music an highly interpretive work, as any archeologist will tell you (unasked).

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