In the Asterix books, Cacofonix the bard is forbidden to sing because his voice causes wild boar, villagers, Normans and Romans alike to flee. But Cacofonix does play the carnyx, a long, slender ...

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 ...

Dr Fraser Hunter, principal curator of Iron Age and Roman collections at National Museum of Scotland, explains his long - and often frustrating - global search for the carnyx war horn, one which is ...