The Hymn was discovered in the1950’s and was written in cuneiform of the Sumerian language around the year 1400 BCE. The song was found in what was ancient Canaan.

The tablet that the Hymn was written on came with instructions on how to tune the Harp and play the song.

I thought that you might like to hear the music that people of that time period would have heard in their daily lives.

Enjoy

EXTRA INFO: Hurrian Hymn Text H6 (circa 1400 BCE): the world’s earliest early music so far discovered (recorded on quite possibly the world’s earliest webcam!). The 3400 year old Hurrian Hymn was discovered in Ugarit, ancient northern Canaan (now modern Syria) in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language – although even earlier Sumerian fragmentary purely instructional musical text from c.1950 BCE (Musical Instructions for Lipit-Ishtar, King of Justice) has been discovered, (which includes nothing more than tuning intervals and a quote of the mode in which the piece was to be played) the Hurrian Hymn it is the oldest actual written melody yet discovered, in History.