Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Reconstruction of a seashell being played as an instrument. In ...

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 ...

If you've ever stumbled across a large conch shell at the seaside, you might have held it to your ear to listen to the sound of the sea. But have you ever considered playing it? Scientists in Spain ...

The history of music goes back a long, long way, and a new discovery in France may be one of the most important discoveries linked to early music making. A conch shell that is now thought to be a horn ...

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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 ...

Researchers have discovered a form of ancient sound device in Catalonia, Spain, as published in the journal Antiquity. The device in question is a Charonia lampas seashell, which they believe was used ...

Everyone who lives or vacations near the ocean has gone on an early morning beach walk to collect shells and, thinking they have found a perfectly intact specimen, bent over and plucked it from the ...

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 ...