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Queen Puabi's lyre: A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 years ago
The artifact, called Queen Puabi's lyre, is one of four lyres that Woolley discovered in one large, elite tomb; the others have been dubbed the golden lyre, the bull-headed lyre and the silver lyre.
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2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman
What it is: A wooden tablet with carbon-based ink Where it is from: Vindolanda Roman fort, in Northumberland, U.K. When it was made: A.D. 97 to 103 Related: Queen Puabi's lyre: A bull-headed music ...