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 ...

The "sound of Baekje" has awakened from a 1,400-year slumber. A transverse flute (橫笛), a wind instrument, was discovered at the Gwanbuk-ri ruins in Buyeo, presumed to be the site of the royal palace ...

Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as ...

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...

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 ...

What is it about the flute that captivates our being? The legendary Sufi thinker Hazrat Inayat Khan, who wrote extensively on ‘Brahma Naad’ or ‘Sawt Surmad,’ the primordial sound, explained that it ...