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 ...

A conch shell discovered in Marsoulas Cave in 1931 and dismissed as a ceremonial cup has been re-examined using high-tech ...

After more than 17,000 years of silence and decades forgotten in a French museum, a shell fashioned into a horn by our prehistoric ancestors has been played again as a result of new research published ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This combination of photos provided by researcher Carole Fritz shows two sides of a 12-inch conch shell discovered in a French cave with prehistoric wall paintings in 1931. Using modern microscopy ...