The recent discovery of a Germanic Lyre in Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, has totally revolutionised our understanding of cultural exchange in late antiquity and the early medieval period. This video discusses the find, and places it within a more broad context.

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Sources:
"The Sutton Hoo Lyre and the music of the Silk Road: a new find of the fourth century AD reveals the Germanic lyre's missing eastern connections": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

"The Sutton Hoo lyre, Beowulf, and the origins of the frame harp":
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...