Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago

Do you like old timey music? Splen­did. You can’t get more old timey than Hur­ri­an Hymn No. 6, which was dis­cov­ered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syr­i­an port city of Ugar­it in the 1950s, and is over 3400 years old. Actu­al­ly, you can — a sim­i­lar tablet, which ref­er­ences a hymn glo­ri­fy­ing Lip­it-Ishtar, … Con­tin­ue read­ing Hear the World’s Old­est Known Song, “Hur­ri­an Hymn No. 6” Writ­ten 3,400 Years Ago