Today’s Solutions: December 09, 2024

Forgotten conch shell in museu

Forgotten conch shell in museum identified as oldest known wind instrument

Archaeologists discovered a treasure hiding in plain sight after a 17,000-year-old conch shell that lay forgotten for more than 80 years in a museum collection has been identified as the oldest known wind instrument of its type. During a recent inventory of items at the Muséum de Toulouse in Read More...

Scientists find oldest known c

Scientists find oldest known cave art depicting recognizable objects

Archeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting of animals — a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago on a cave wall in Indonesia. The artwork was found along the rear wall of a pristine limestone cave called Leang Tedongnge in South Read More...