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A 2,800-Year-Old Bone Flute Turns Up at Troy in the Age of Homer, the First Musical Instrument Found after Years of Digging

23 October 2026 at 09:49
In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play. Archaeologists have pulled walls, gates, jewelry, weapons and tableware out of the ground in huge quantities, but never an instrument. This season that changed. The team led by Rüstem Aslan of Onsekiz Mart University in Çanakkale, in northwestern Turkey, recovered a […]

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