Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the blue and white skiff cuts across the bay to Naguabo on the eastern tip of Puerto Rico, fisherman ...

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 ...

Vastu Tips for Shankh are often discussed in Hindu traditions because the conch shell is considered one of the most sacred objects used during worship. Apart from its spiritual significance, the conch ...

This story was supported by funding from the Walton Family Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from ...

FREEPORT, Bahamas — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the ...

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.