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 ...

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.

The Wordle word of the day is conch, which at first feels deceptively mild. A shell. A beachside curiosity. Something you might lift to your ear and pretend to hear the ocean. Hardly the sort of word ...

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 ...

PUNE: Madhukar Sidhaye looks much younger than his 78 years. He is a busy man guiding a group of 15 young conch blowers — shankh pathaks.“I have been blowing the conch for 45 years now, and for 40 of ...

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 ...