Image: Sumerian Clay Tablet MS 2340 Describing Musical Tuning

Photograph courtesy of The Schøyen Collection.

An early written record of music and musical instruments is from the 26^th century BCE. It is written in Sumerian inscribed in clay and comes from ancient Sumer, in the Southern Mesopotamian valley in present-day Iraq.

See The Development of Flutes in Europe and Asia for more context about this image. See also [Hill-AE 2009].