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Conch shells may be 6,000-year-old instruments, researchers say

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 ...
The Free Press Journal

Mumbai-based abstract artist, Krupa Shah installs 'Abhiscka – The Conch'

Mumbai-based abstract artist, Krupa Shah installed “Abhiscka”, a conch sculpture at Mumbai’s Vasantrao Naik Chowk, Tardeo. The inauguration of the conch was initiated by Krupa Shah along with Aaditya ...
The Art Newspaper

Hear the sound of an ancient conch horn, played again after 18,000 years

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 ...
Nature

The Conch Shell of India

THE conch or chank shell (Turbinella pyrum) is so intimately connected with the religious and social life of the people of India that the monograph on the subject prepared by Mr. J. Hornell, ...