The ASTRA project, standing for Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application, has revived an instrument that hasn't been played or heard in centuries. Using the Enabling Grids for ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that ...

in Athens, a family of musicians, Lyravlos have recreated exact replicas of the ancient instruments from natural materials including animal shells, bones, hides and horns. Hymns sung to the Greek gods ...

Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like. Take the Greeks for example. We can see the stadiums and ...

Thanks to a classicist’s research, the sounds of ancient Greek music can be heard again. Scholars have long been familiar with the instruments used during the era, and, of course, with the texts by ...

Researchers have unearthed the remains of ancient Greek musical instruments - a harp and a lyre - on the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Researchers from the Institute of ...

Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, the kitharis, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musicians play lyre during a concert with reconstructed ancient instruments at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, ...