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Egyptian love songs, poems and hymns recorded in the Egyptian Book of the Dead refer to the enchanting skills of their musicians and poets. In hieroglyphics and murals found in ancient temples around Egypt, Osiris is identified with the Lyra constellation and often shown holding a lyre and playing to Isis, his queen. The Greek Mercury or Hermes was said to have made the first lyre from the shell of a tortoise or sea turtle, which he found on the banks of the river Nile. This suggests their astronomy and mythology associated with the Lyra constellation had originated in Egypt.