Golden Mummies : Cymbals

Golden Mummies

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Bronze cymbals connected to tongs, so that they could be squeezed together with one hand to make music. Musical instruments such as this were used in Egyptian temples to entertain the gods. Cymbals as a form of percussive instrument only appeared in Egypt in the last centuries BCE.</p>


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