Seikilos epitaph

The Seikilos Epitaph is the earliest recorded complete musical composition, it dates to between 200BC and 100AD. The song is written in ancient Greek and was found on a grave stone in Turkey.

Little is known about Seikilos, his wife to whom this song was dedicated or about their day to day problems, wishes, desires and hopes, but as long as humanity has the wisdom and ability to preserve our history as best we can, the sentiments of this music will be immortal and without bounds.

To think that this was composed and engraved to memorialise a woman who died at about the same time that many believe that Christ walked the Earth, before the time of the Internet, cars, the taming of electricity, before even the middle ages, the enlightenment or the industrial revolution, when the world had less than a billion people across the globe, whilst wild lions still wandered the Southern European wilderness and the Roman empire still stood as a major world power.