Ancient Europeans made a horn out of a large seashell and blew musical notes out of it roughly 18,000 years ago, a new study suggests. While it’s not known how ancient people used the shell horn ...

Previous X-ray tomographic analysis of conch shells has likened their sound to that of a French horn. Even at 17,000 years old, the shell horn isn’t the oldest known musical instrument.

Ancient conch shell horn blown for the first time in 18,000 years The Marsoulas conch hasn't been heard since the late Stone Age.

Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access ...

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 ...

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 ...

The specimen, archaeologists have now determined, is the earliest conch shell horn yet known, and stands out as a unique find among European Upper Paleolithic artifacts.

Hear the Musical Sounds of an 18,000-Year-Old Giant Conch The shell was played for the first time in millennia after being rediscovered in the collections of a French museum ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access ...

Why A Musician Breathed New Life Into A 17,000-Year-Old Conch Shell Horn A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia.

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 ...