Behold...music of the ancient Greeks

Music scholars are recreating ancient Greek songs that haven't been heard for thousands of years. The results aren't very inspiring, but we're finally getting a sense of what the ancients were listening to.

Recreating music is a daunting task for historians and musicologists, especially considering that formal music notation wasn't developed until much later.

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