While renovating our garage, we found a box of large conch shells in ashes. Does anyone know if this was used for a specific purpose or just a shell collector? Our house is from around 1840-50s.

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 ...

For the first time in more than 17,000 years, three mellifluous musical notes - close in tone to C, D, and C sharp - have reverberated from a conch shell modified to serve as a wind instrument. The ...

Conch, unearthed in cave in Pyrenees in 1931, had been carefully drilled and shaped to make music A 17,000-year-old conch shell that lay forgotten for more than 80 years in a museum collection has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover adventure, outdoor, and wellness travel. The edible marine snail with beautiful conical shells are found throughout the ...