(CN) — Scientists have concluded that an ancient conch shell recovered from the renowned painted Marsoulas cave in the Pyrenees mountains is the earliest wind instrument of its kind on record and ...
A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the ...
The seashell has been collecting dust on a museum shelf in Toulouse for the past 80 years, and before that, it had spent all of recorded history, plus a few millennia, on the floor of a cave in the ...
Artist's rendering of a prehistoric human playing the ancient conch instrument G. Tosello A team of researchers was studying the archaeological inventory of the Natural History Museum of Toulouse in ...
A team of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona (UB) has documented the use of trumpets made from sea snail shells in various Neolithic settlements on the Catalan coast. These artefacts, ...
Music from the large conch probably hadn’t been heard by human ears for 17,000 years. By Katherine Kornei In 1931, researchers working in southern France unearthed a large seashell at the entrance to ...
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 contains ...
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