Sunday, April 24, 2016

In a 2014 flyer for teachers by Science Foundation Ireland Education and Public Engagement for primary schools’ science week competition, it’s noted that “bag-pipes were invented in Persia, not Scotland”…
 
[pic source Greentree Ceremonies:  A sketch of a bagpipe found at Takht-i-Bostan in Iran dating to 6th c. cited in Sir Robert Porter's Travels in Georgia, Persia vil.ii p. 177, pl 1xiv…for educational purposes only]

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