Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues

[gnabgib]

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2025/06/02/researchers-recreate-ancient-egyptian-blues/

[2rsf]

Blue (or light blue) is also being researched as it is mentioned in the bible and important for Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet

[LiquidSky]

That old-fashioned Nile Delta sound.

[metalman]

hooloovoo, blue

[Y_Y → texuf]

Woke up this mornin’, sun blazin’ in my eyes

Them old gods gone missin’, no prayers, no alibis

Temple doors shut tight, statues turned to stone

Aten’s in the sky now, and I’m worshippin’ alone

[BrenBarn → Y_Y]

I went out for a walk to sit down by the Nile,

and fish a little bit and just kick back a while.

But the foreman comes and says the boss has won the bid

on the contract to construct the pharaoh's pyramid.

So now I gotta spend my days out working for the man,

pushing giant blocks of stone across the burning hot sand.

I don't see why us peasants got to go and do this

just to help some bigshot's stupid heart impress Anubis.

[HPsquared → BrenBarn]

No shade, no pay, just a tomb with a view,

And a thousand other workers feelin’ just like I do.

[lproven → HPsquared]

Came here with the same thought: blues music. Was not disappointed.

Relevant, even if fake:

"Archaeologists get ancient audio from grooves on Pompeii pottery"

https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/showthread.php?tid=4773

[dessimus → texuf]

Yeah, my first thought was: Huh, I would have had Egyptians more into rock and roll.

[b33j0r → dessimus]

Same, I just took that for granite.

[gedy → texuf]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f0s5YzqZXGM