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ORIGINAL MUSIC AND STORY OF THE DOCUMENTARY ???????????????? • World's first!!! 3500-Year-Old Sumerian Music... Who knows how many thousands of years ago did humans start expressing their feelings through the language of music? We don't know exactly, but the music of the documentary you are going to watch was written by the Sumerians approximately 5 thousand years ago... It was engraved on a tablet and remained hidden underground for 5 thousand years. Until an archaeologist took it out of the ground and offered it to researchers. Sumerologist Prof. Anne Darffkorn Kilmer from the University of Berkeley in the United States of America was examining tablets that day, as she has done throughout her professional life. She saw that one tablet she started to examine was different from the others. The signs on the tablet were different. These did not look like writing. After a short while, she realized that these signs belonged to a piece of music. The signs were immediately translated into the language of notes. This is the short story of how the music that graces our documentary meets the modern world 5 thousand years later. The 5 thousand year old music was revived by musicologist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yavuz Daloğlu. Of course, by adapting it to the musical ear of today's people... The harp and lyre used in the performance of this extraordinary music today were also used by the Sumerians. We don't know what else we will learn as we dig underground and reach evidence of the past, but our curiosity keeps us awake. We owe a heartfelt debt of gratitude to the Sumerians, the Sumerian masters who baked the tablets, archaeologists, scientists who helped them with their hoes and trowels, Sumerologists, musicians and many people who pursue a curiosity.