The Art Newspaper

Hear the sound of an ancient conch horn, played again after 18,000 years

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 ...
Gizmodo

After 17,000 Years, a Rediscovered Conch Horn Is Played Again

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Hear the Musical Sounds of an 18,000-Year-Old Giant 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 ...
Belfast Telegraph

Ancient conch shell horn plays a tune for the first time in 17,000 years – study

For the first time in more than 17,000 years, three musical notes have reverberated from an ancient conch shell modified to serve as a wind instrument. Archaeologists say the specimen is the oldest ...
The Art Newspaper

Hear the sound of an ancient conch horn, played again after 18,000 years

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 ...