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 foghorn ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of photos provided by researcher Carole Fritz in February 2021 shows two sides of a 12-inch (31 cm) conch shell ...

Tropical Storm Bertha will have no impact to the San Antonio area and a very minimal impact to the Texas Coast. WASHINGTON – A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be ...