RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 15 December 2021
The 1,600-year-old lyre (artist’s impression) excavated in Dzhetyasar, Kazakhstan, has the same design as those found in cemeteries thousands of kilometres away in Western Europe. Credit: Gjermund Kolltveit
A 1,600-year-old lyre found in modern Kazakhstan matches musical instruments seen in Anglo-Saxon burials of the first millennium ad, suggesting that technology transfer occurred across thousands of kilometres in antiquity1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03685-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03685-y
