The sound of a conch shell is one of the most sacred sounds in Hinduism. It echoes through temples, homes, weddings, and ...

Music elites better table your ukuleles and unplug your theremins; science is bringing the noise with the newest in niche musical instruments. Or, more accurately, one of the oldest. A massive conch ...

Archaeologists have modeled the auditory range of conch-shell trumpets in the 9th–11th century US Southwest, proposing that the sound was key in the structuring of pre-Columbian Pueblo communities. At ...

It was not just a sound. It was a signal a warning a declaration. When Krishna blew his conch, the battlefield didn’t just hear it everyone felt it. But have you ever wondered Where did this conch ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access ...

The artwork in Whitehaven was made by Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz The sounds of Caribbean conch shells will be heard at a harbour in an art project intended to highlight Britain's colonial past ...

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.

Researchers in France say they’ve identified an 18,000-year-old conch shell as a musical instrument, and you can hear somebody play it. Researchers analyzing an 18,000-year-old conch shell found in ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access ...