Researchers in France say they've identified an 18,000-year-old conch shell as a musical instrument, and you can hear somebody play it. The post Listen to Somebody Blow an 18,000-Year-Old 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 ...

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.

At right, images 9 and 10 show a different conch instrument from New Zealand with a mouthpiece fitted to the broken apex. The French researchers reckon that this 18,000-year-old shell had the same ...

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 ...

Previously, a conch shell instrument found in Syria had been dated to about 6,000 years old, said another Toulouse archaeologist, Gilles Tosello.

Only in 2016 did researchers begin to analyze the shell anew. Artifacts like this conch help paint a picture of how cave dwellers lived, said Carole Fritz, an archaeologist at the University of ...

The Marsoulas conch shell Carole Fritz et al. 2021. Conch shells have been used as sacred objects or musical instruments across history, with the authors suggesting the previously oldest known ...

A conch shell that is now thought to be a horn was found in 1931, but researchers only recently discovered that it may have been used as a musical instrument. The shell has a hole in it that was ...

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 ...

Previously, a conch shell instrument found in Syria had been dated to about 6,000 years old, said another Toulouse archaeologist, Gilles Tosello. Advertising.

WASHINGTON – 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 ...