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 ...

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 ...

Some 18,000 years ago, in a cave in what we now call France, a human being left behind something precious: a conch shell. It was not just any conch shell. Its tip had been lopped off—unlikely by ...

Scientists analyzing a conch shell believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its type in the world have released a recording of what it would have sounded like. The shell was largely overlooked ...

KEY WEST — Making music with a conch (pronounced "konk") shell might seem unusual, but several dozen people tried it during the weekend's annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.

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 would ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -The Second Annual Little Village Conch Shell Festival is kicking off on September 23. The event features the Cap’n Scuba Memorial Conch Shell Blowing Contest and the ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Who doesn’t need a little conch in their lives? The 2nd Annual Conch Shell Festival kicks off September 23rd at Little Village. The festival features the Cap’n Scuba ...