Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than one thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

I also worked with a group of lay Buddhists who like Dewey's work very much because it is very comfortable with some of the ideas of Mahayana Buddhism."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

"I am sure there will be some compromises but at the end of the day, I would expect that it would look very much like the Senate version,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27