Oldest drums were pictures on the walls and on According pottery frame drums in ancient Egypt and in Mesopotamia. Women, they played probably in cultic rituals. One in the temple area of the Mesopotamian site Tell Agrab found clay pot dated to about 3000 v. Chr.. It shows three naked women, keep the circular objects in their hands and represents the presumably earliest known illustration of drums. From 17th Egyptian dynasty has survived with a large barrel drum in the image of musician Emhab. The large standing priest drum lilissu with a bronze body from old Babylonian period is considered the oldest boiler drum and distant forerunner of today timpani. From ancient Egyptian and the early Islamic period, the four-sided frame drums were ad-duff, derived from the Hebrew woman Instrument tof (today's daf are round), and disseminated several large, questionable celled barrel drums for the use of men in war far. Einfellige small kettle drums there were hardly any. [1]