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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have unveiled the ancient song of an Ice Age conch shell, believed to be the oldest known wind instrument of its kind. The 18,000-year-old shell lay forgotten in a French museum for 80 ...

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.

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 ...