The evolution of music is an elusive yet tantalising subject as, unlike skeletons, sounds don’t leave fossilised remains. The oldest known musical instrument is a 40,000-year-old flute made from bird ...

Before Spotify playlists, before concerts, before even written history, there was sound. A stretched string. A hollow drum. A breath through wood. What if the instruments we listen to today were not ...

A study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa by archaeologists Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Prof. Margarita Díaz-Andreu explores the intriguing relationship between Zimbabwean rock art and ...

The Dance of Death, a 16th-century artwork by an anonymous German artist Metropolitan Museum of Art / Purchase, Harry G. Sperling Fund, James A. and Maria R. Warth gift, in memory of Anne and Peter ...