This combination of photos provided by researcher Carole Fritz in February 2021 shows two sides of a 12-inch (31 cm) conch shell discovered in a French cave with prehistoric wall paintings in 1931.

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

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 from the ...

A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

Artist's rendering of a prehistoric human playing the ancient conch instrument G. Tosello A team of researchers was studying the archaeological inventory of the Natural History Museum of Toulouse in ...

Archaeologists think it is one of the oldest known man-made conch shell horns, and was discovered inside the Marsoulas cave at the bottom of the French Pyrenees in 1931. Researchers first thought the ...

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 ...