Few Chinese people have heard of the yue, an ancient wind instrument that belonged to the flute family. However, this flute, the name of which is pronounced the same as the word for "music" in Chinese ...

An 8,700-year-old bone flute unearthed in central China's Henan Province has been proven to use a seven-tone scale, an unusual number in traditional Chinese music, said a local researcher at the ...

A bone flute unearthed at Jiahu in Wuyang county, Henan province. CHINA DAILY ZHENGZHOU－More than 8,000 years ago, a red-crowned crane died, leaving behind a bone from its wing to be claimed by ...

Stone Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone, but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known. Found in the ...

Under the Microscope: Music has a biological basis in the brain, where several regions are involved in particular aspects of processing music, such as recognising a melody, or expressing emotional ...

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 ...

The discovery of the world's oldest musical instrument -- a 35,000-year-old flute made from a wing bone -- highlights a prehistoric moment when the mind learned to soar on flights of melody and rhythm ...

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 ...

Seven miniature flutes carved from the wing bones of prehistoric birds have been discovered in Northern Israel – and they uncover a long-lost piece of humans’ musical history. The 12,000-year-old ...