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Posted on 07/17/2025 9:28:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a statement released by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), LMU researcher Enrique Jiménez was able to decipher a Babylonian hymn that had been lost for 2,000 years. Jiménez, in collaboration with the University of Baghdad, is working on digitizing all cuneiform tablets from the legendary ancient Sippar Library, once located on the banks of the Euphrates River north of Babylon. Using artificial intelligence, the team was able to identify 30 different fragmentary pieces from the same composition, which turned out to be a previously unknown hymn consisting of 250 lines. The piece was written by an ancient Babylonian who wished to shower his city with praise. The author not only describes Babylon's lofty buildings, but hints at what life was like in the city and, perhaps most significantly, provides valuable information about the role of women in Babylonian society, including their duties as priestesses. Because there were so many different fragmentary copies of the text surviving, the experts believe it may have been widely known and even copied by schoolchildren during their lessons. "It's unusual that such a popular text in its day was unknown to us before now," said Jiménez. Read the full hymn and the original scholarly article about this research in Iraq. To read about tablets thought to have come from Sippar that record the earliest known mentions of omens related to lunar eclipses, go to "Bad Moon Rising."
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There is a fellow at the British Museum who has successfully translated Cuneiform. He has translated many texts from the great library of Ashurbanipal. Interesting stuff as the Sumerians were great record keepers and the subjects cover all manner of subjects.
Never got into Black Adder. Have to give it another try.
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https://www.wqxr.org/story/how-was-musical-notation-invented-brief-history/
Music notation started in 1025.
exactly 1000 years ago.
Our current system (staff, clef) isn’t even that old. The system used before that one is still understood, in order to ‘translate’ early music into modern notation. Good thing too.
Rediscovering Awe: Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/rediscovering-awe-antoine-brumels-earthquake-mass/
There are dozens of ancient Egyptian songs and hymns for which we have the words, but not the music. Unfortunately, the ancient Egyptians did not have a formal system of notation so we can only guess at what the melodies for the songs might have been. We do know, however, quite a lot about the instruments they had because many of them have survived, while others can be seen illustrated on the walls of tombs and temples.
I built the harp you see in this video several years ago, made a couple of videos with it, and then moved on to other things. I recently decided to dust it off and play it again. It is what is called an “arched harp”, known to the ancient Egyptians as a “djedjet”. Unlike modern harps, these instruments were C-shaped, and did not have a front supporting pillar.
The words of the song in this video are taken from the seventh song of a set of love songs written on papyrus scrolls in the Egyptian language of the New Kingdom about 3,500 years ago. The scrolls are part of the Chester Beatty collection, and are currently housed in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
The temple you see at the beginning of the video is that of the goddess Hathor in Dendera, Egypt. Hathor was one of the most popular and widely worshipped deities of ancient Egypt. She had the facial features of a cow and the body of a woman. She was recognized as the goddess of love, beauty, fertility and music, as well as the protector of women.Seven Days Since I Last Saw My Love | 4:02
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