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Listen to haunting notes from an 18,000-year-old conch shell trumpet – Ars Technica
Archaeologists in 1931 assumed the shell was only a broken drinking cup.
Enlarge/ Archaeologists in 1931 found the conch shell near the entrance of Marsoulas Cave. This is a reconstruction of where and how the shell might have been played.
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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.
University of Toulouse archaeologist Carole Fritz and her colleagues recently recognized the shell as…
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