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 ...

After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.

They found that the conch had been carved into a wind instrument capable of producing specific notes—essentially a musical instrument that archaeologists propose may have been played for ...

An artists drawing of how the shell might have been used. "Around the world, conch shells have served as musical instruments, calling or signalling devices, and sacred or magic objects depending ...

A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia. Archaeologists originally found the seashell in 1931, in a French cave that ...

A conch from New Zealand and its mouthpiece ... bone of a bird — to be inserted into the shell. The result was a musical instrument, the team concluded in their study, which was published ...

Scientists analyzing a conch shell believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its type in the ... use the shell to make what we think of as music, Tosello told CNN. “It could have been used ...

Conch shells have been used as sacred objects or musical instruments across history, with the authors suggesting the previously oldest known shells have been discovered in the Mediterranean ...

If you find a conch shell on a beach ... And after all, they didn’t need an instrument to make music in the first place. “With a voice, you can make music,” says archaeologist Carole ...

While many older musical instruments have been discovered – including this 50,000 year old neanderthal flute – Fritz says that the 18,000-year-old conch would be the oldest of its kind known today.