Musicologist Richard Dumbrill now takes advantage of the phrase much more categorically to debate instruments that existed millennia before the expression "lute" was coined.[26] Dumbrill documented over 3000 many years of iconographic evidence for the lutes in Mesopotamia, in his e book The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. https://music-3ood66655.blogzet.com/little-known-facts-about-music-oud-50535618