The artifact, called Queen Puabi's lyre, is one of four lyres that Woolley discovered in one large, elite tomb; the others have been dubbed the golden lyre, the bull-headed lyre and the silver lyre.

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE ... were made to run over a bridge attached to the box. The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur.

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE ... were made to run over a bridge attached to the box. The bull lyre is one of three excavated from the royal cemetery of Ur.