A conch shell found in a cave used by the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Palaeolithic was originally thought to be a cup, but a new analysis suggests they used it as a kind of horn. That would ...

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Ancient Europeans made a horn out of a large seashell and blew musical notes out of it roughly 18,000 years ago, a new study suggests. While it’s not known how ancient people used the shell horn, ...

The seashell has been collecting dust on a museum shelf in Toulouse for the past 80 years, and before that, it had spent all of recorded history, plus a few millennia, on the floor of a cave in the ...

Yonkers Sanitary Fair. Catalogue of Paintings, on exhibition in National Guard Armory, Farrington Building, commencing Monday, February 15th, 1864. Henry Spear, Printer and Stationer, 133 Pearl and 86 ...