In her poem “Bone Flute,” the late Los Altos writer Irene Adler reflects on an ancient instrument and the human who crafted it millennia ago. The cover of “Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks.” Courtesy Paloma ...

A vulture-bone flute discovered in a European cave is likely the world's oldest recognizable musical instrument and pushes back humanity's musical roots, a new study says. Found with fragments 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 ...

Some books do not arrive with spectacle. They arrive quietly. Irene Adler’s Bone Flute – A Woman Speaks is one of these rare books. More than a collection of poems, it is the distillation of a life, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ZHENGZHOU－More than 8,000 years ago, a red-crowned crane died, leaving behind a bone from its wing to be claimed by primitive men. They drilled holes in the skeletal remains, and there was music. From ...

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 wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute and ...

Researchers in Germany have unearthed new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments of three ivory flutes. The discovery ...