A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered. Archaeologists assembled the flute from 12 pieces of griffon vulture bone scattered in the ...

BERLIN – A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence ...

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 ...

12,000-year-old bone flutes discovered in Israel may have been used by hunters to lure prey, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Nature Scientific Report Paleolithic people worked their ...

He raises the hollowed block of wood to his lips, draws a breath and then exhales. An F-sharp hovers in the morning air and then vanishes. It’s called “first breath,” Kent Bush says. Many flutes come ...

76-year-old flautist has entered Guiness Book of World Records for playing the longest and shortest flutes His name has also been recorded in Limca Book of Records for playing the smallest flute, just ...

Melanie Lidman is an AP reporter and former Times of Israel reporter Archaeologists are hearing for the first time how humans made music some 12,000 years ago, by recreating a flute that was likely ...