Perforated bones excavated at an ancient settlement in northern Israel may be the oldest wind instruments found in the region. The small flutes could have been used to make music, call birds or even ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

Lizzo might want to one-up James Madison’s 200-year old crystal flute with this even older flute — recently discovered by archaeologists across the pond. The rare medieval bone flute was unearthed in ...

A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests. Laurent Davin, an archaeologist at the French Research Center in Jerusalem, playing ...

Archaeologists say they have unearthed the world's oldest musical instruments. They are flutes, made of vulture bone and mammoth tusks. They were found in caves in southwestern Germany and date back ...

Four flutes found In all, researchers report finding the fragments of four flutes at two excavations in an area of southwestern Germany known as Swabia. Three of the sets of fragments were carved from ...

Sound on! From conch shells to bone flutes, humans have been making musical instruments for tens of thousands of years. What did prehistoric music sound like? Follow us on a journey to find the oldest ...