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 ...

An ancient conch shell found in a cave in Marsoulas, in the French Pyrenees, has been identified as a wind instrument used by craftsmen in the Palaeolithic period about 18,000 years ago.

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 ...