Recreating the sound of Tutankhamun’s trumpets
20th April 2011
Both became exhibits at the Cairo museum, but when it was broken into during the recent uprising, the bronze instrument vanished. Luckily, the silver one was away on exhibition tour.
Egyptologists were already reeling from the loss of many of the country’s antiquities, and many found the theft of one of the oldest surviving musical instruments in the world particularly poignant.
And this is why the Elgin Marbles are better off in the British Museum rather than back in Greece.