Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in 1931 say that it was indeed used as a musical instrument millennia ago. The conch shell, unearthed in the Marsoulas Cave in Southwestern ...
Music from the large conch probably hadn’t been heard by human ears for 17,000 years. By Katherine Kornei In 1931, researchers working in southern France unearthed a large seashell at the entrance to ...
Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher As a child, Miquel López García was fascinated by the conch shell ...