Throughout history, from ancient times to more modern conflicts, intimidating the enemy through aggressive noises and sounds has played an important part of warfare. During the Iron Age and ...

A pan-European research project is revealing how the ancient instruments played by our ancestors point towards musical sophistication and co-operation across ethnic boundaries. Luke Turner ...

It's always a thrill when some precious object from the distant past is rescued from the ground, cleaned of the mud of millennia, and restored to its original beauty. But how much more thrilling it is ...

THE University of Huddersfield wins major awards for researching and originating the most advanced contemporary music. But it is also playing a key role in rediscovering sounds of the distant past and ...

TINTIGNAC, FRANCE—A carnyx, a long, slender trumpet-like instruments decorated with an animal’s head, was recently reassembled from fragments of iron and bronze objects that had been buried in a pit ...

Ahead of an appearance at the Cumnock Tryst festival, which will see three carnyces played together for the first time, composer and performer John Kenny tells Ken Walton that there’s a lot more to ...

A Celtic trumpet which was used to terrify the enemy during battle is to return home to the North East. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...

If you were watching the Wales v Iceland game on Tuesday night, you might have noticed a large horn being sounded before kick-off. The imposing golden instrument, which stands at 12ft (3.6m), is known ...

A rare Iron Age war trumpet found in a lump of clay by a metal detectorist has sold at auction for £4,216. The instrument, which is known as a carnyx, was discovered by Ivan Bailey at Bardwell in ...