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The Songbird: Linking Music and Blindness in Ancient Babylonia

Eric J. Harvey on May 11, 2020May 13, 2020

Eric J. Harvey In the middle of the 17th century BCE, there was a young blind girl living in the northern regions of the fading Old Babylonian empire. She was called Shinunutum, named after a small mountain bird with a striking song.[1] We know almost nothing of this girl, except that one day, shortly after… Continue Reading The Songbird: Linking Music and Blindness in Ancient Babylonia

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