A 2000-year-old stringed musical instrument was discovered in Vietnam (photo)

Archaeologists have unearthed this deer horn in the province of Long An in southern Vietnam. Scientists assume that it's a musical instrument dating back 2,000 years.

Fredeliza Campos, a researcher at the Australian National University, and her colleagues aren't sure how the instrument was played or exactly what it sounded like. This is reported by ANU Reporter.

It is noted that to create sounds, one string was probably pulled.

"This stringed instrument, or chordophone, is one of the earliest examples of this type of instrument in Southeast Asia," Campos said.

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This, she says, fills the gap between the oldest known musical instruments in the region – lithophones or stone percussion plates – and more modern instruments.

"It would have been about 35cm long and had a hole at one end for a peg, which would have been important for tuning. It also had what looked like a bridge to support the string.

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