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For example, we cannot accurately imagine how the music sounded at the court of Cleopatra, although we know what instruments were used from drawings and pictorial images: alas, the remnants of the musical notation system were not deciphered. Perhaps the sound of those melodies was partially preserved after millennia in modern folk music of Egypt. We can only imagine them, as Verdi did in the score for Aida in 1871, Alex North in the music for the 1963 Cleopatra film and Samuel Barber in the 1966 opera Anthony and Cleopatra.