At the entrance to the Marsoulas cave in France's Pyrenean foothills, Henri Begouën and James Townsend Russell stumbled upon an exceptional find in 1931. A conch shell -- the hardened exoskeleton ...

Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect notes out of a musical instrument that's more than 17,000 years old. It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France ...

Loading audio... Scientists have unveiled the ancient song of an Ice Age conch shell, believed to be the oldest known wind instrument of its kind. The 18,000-year-old shell lay forgotten in a French ...

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 ...

If the shell horn was used as a musical instrument, it’s certainly not the oldest. That honor goes to bone and ivory flutes that Europeans made as early as around 40,000 years ago (SN: 6/24/09).

Only in 2016 did researchers begin to analyze the shell anew. Artifacts like this conch help paint a picture of how cave dwellers lived, said Carole Fritz, an archaeologist at the University of ...

WHILE it may be tempting to bring one seemingly common item back to the UK from your holidays, it could land you in serious trouble. Conch shells are large, pinkish, spiral-shaped shells – an… ...