After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.

One of the items that tourists frequently try to bring back from vacations are queen conch shells. Queen conchs are large, pinkish-red shells with a spiral shape that make a sound resembling the ...

The team noted engravings beneath some of the conch’s red dots too. “The [shell’s] pigment was analyzed and its chemical composition is very similar to one of the wall paintings,” Walter says.

The Marsoulas conch shell Carole Fritz et al. 2021. Conch shells have been used as sacred objects or musical instruments across history, with the authors suggesting the previously oldest known ...

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.

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 ...

An ancient conch shell that was usual as a musical instrument has been played for the first time in 17,000 years. BBC Homepage. ... as well as using a red pigment to decorate it, ...

Women also pair this attire with white conch shell bangles (shakha), red coral bangles (pola), and the traditional red sindoor on their forehead, a symbol of marital status.

It has a small, narrow hole drilled into the point of the shell called the apex, and is decorated with fingerprint-shaped ochre red markings. “We are pretty sure that this shell was transformed ...

The 50th Annual West Conch Shell Blowing Contest was held Saturday in Key West, pitting the best conch shell blowers against each other for the title of best honker.

Clad in a white shirt, a pair of black trousers and a red sleeveless jacket, an exhausted Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee walked into his Ballygunge home at ...