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 ...

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 ...

Some 18,000 years ago, in a cave in what we now call France, a human being left behind something precious: a conch shell. It was not just any conch shell. Its tip had been lopped off—unlikely by ...

If you are a fan of oldies, you might be interested in an evocative track that just dropped from prehistoric times. The notes in the below recording were played on a conch shell that was used some ...

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 ...

Conch, unearthed in cave in Pyrenees in 1931, had been carefully drilled and shaped to make music A 17,000-year-old conch shell that lay forgotten for more than 80 years in a museum collection has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in 1931 say that it was indeed used as a musical instrument millennia ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in ...