Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in 1931 say that it was indeed used as a musical instrument millennia ago. The conch shell, unearthed in the Marsoulas Cave in Southwestern ...

An ancient conch shell found in a cave in Marsoulas, in the French Pyrenees, has been identified as a wind instrument used by craftsmen in the Palaeolithic period about 18,000 years ago.

Music elites better table your ukuleles and unplug your theremins; science is bringing the noise with the newest in niche musical instruments. Or, more accurately, one of the oldest. A massive conch ...

Scientists analyzing a conch shell believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its type in the world have released a recording of what it would have sounded like. The shell was largely overlooked ...

A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

An ancient conch shell has been played for the first time in 17,000 years. Archaeologists think it is one of the oldest known man-made conch shell horns, and was discovered inside the Marsoulas cave ...

The history of music goes back a long, long way, and a new discovery in France may be one of the most important discoveries linked to early music making. A conch shell that is now thought to be a horn ...

The shell was found during the 1931 excavation of a cave with prehistoric wall paintings in the French Pyrenees and assumed to be a ceremonial drinking cup. Archaeologists from the University of ...

Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used ...

Scientists analyzing a conch shell believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its type in the world have released a recording of what it would have sounded like. The shell was largely overlooked ...

Archaeologists think it is one of the oldest known man-made conch shell horns, and was discovered inside the Marsoulas cave at the bottom of the French Pyrenees in 1931. Researchers first thought the ...