Listen to haunting notes from an 18,000-year-old conch shell trumpet Archaeologists in 1931 assumed the shell was only a broken drinking cup. Kiona N. Smith – Feb 12, 2021 10:57 am ...

Conch shells, found buried at ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico, were likely used as communication devices across the arid landscape. James Wainscoat via Unsplash If you were standing on the edge ...

Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans ...

A seashell found in a French cave in 1931 appears to have been modified by prehistoric people so that it could be used like a trumpet. This horn, however, is not the oldest known musical instrument.

In ancient Greece, it is associated with Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, who was often depicted with a conch shell as a trumpet.

CHENNAI: Dejected by the inauspicious tag that the conch shell trumpet has always had, a group of city residents has taken up a unique endeavour to assert that the conch is not blown only at the ...

The results were surprising. In the five communities studied, the modeling revealed that the sound range of the conch shell trumpet emanating from the great houses overlapped significantly with the ...

Conch shells, found buried at ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico, were likely used as communication devices across the arid landscape. James Wainscoat via Unsplash If you were standing on the edge ...

KEY WEST, fla. — A Colorado man, competing in his late father’s honor, won the men’s division of the 52nd annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest on Saturday afternoon in Key West.

Long before governments had the power to ping citizens on their smartphones, the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon used conch shell trumpets to send out population-wide ...

Conch shells, found buried at ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico, were likely used as communication devices across the arid landscape. James Wainscoat via Unsplash If you were standing on the edge ...