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 overlooked ...

A conch shell found in a cave used by the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Palaeolithic was originally thought to be a cup, but a new analysis suggests they used it as a kind of horn. That would ...

Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...