Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago in History, Music | July 8th, 2014 94 Comments In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century B.C.E.. Found, WFMU tells us, “in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit,” these tablets “contained cuneiform signs in the hurrian language,” which turned out to be the oldes