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Revival of Ancient Egyptian Music

In the early 21st century, interest in the music of the pharaonic period began to grow, inspired by the research of such foreign-born musicologists as Hans Hickmann. By the early 21st century, Egyptian musicians and musicologists led by the musicology professor Khairy El-Malt at Helwan University in Cairo had begun to reconstruct musical instruments of Ancient Egypt, a project that is ongoing.

  • Broken Egyptian Sistrum

  • Egyptian Sistrum

  • Collection of sistrums at the Louvre

  • From the Walters Art Museum, 380–250 BC

  • Ancient Egyptian Long Flute

  • Ancient Egyptian Stringed Instruments

  • Ancient Egyptian With TwoSided Drum

  • Ancient Egyptian Music Band

  • Late Style Egyptian Lyre

  • Ancient Egyptian Woman Playing Drum

  • Egyptian Lyre

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