Unbelievable Discovery: 50,000 Year Old Instrument Found!

50,000 Year Old Neanderthal Flute - The World's Oldest Known Musical Instrument

The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 50,000-60,000 year old Neanderthal flute is a treasure of global significance. In 1995 it was discovered in Divje Babe cave near Cerkno, Slovenia. It has been declared by experts to have been made by Neanderthals. The flute is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear and has four pierced holes. The flute can still be played today and is currently located at the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana.

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This famous discovery happened in 1995, when during the excavations performed by Ivan Turk and Janez Dirjec from the Slovenian Institute of Archaeology, the world's oldest musical instrument was discovered in the Mousterian layer.

This unusual musical instrument, neither a flute nor a whistle, was cemented near the remains of a 50.000 – 60.000 years old Neanderthal fire pit, made from the thigh bone of a young cave bear into which the Neanderthal drilled three holes and made a sharpened rim for the mouthpiece using tools made of bone and stone.
Oldest Known Musical Instrument Plays Notes of Do, Re, Mi Scale
The natural shape of the chosen left thigh bone, its size and artificial redesign is ergonomically sound and adapted for a right-handed musician. Therefore it cannot be random. This incredible find from the Archaeological Park Divje Babe is at least 10.000 years older and significantly more capable than all other previously known Palaeolithic flutes in Europe made from bird bones by the first anatomically modern humans.

That is why we cannot simply speak of a flute any longer, but rather of a musical instrument of a special kind, one which profoundly changed our views of the Neanderthal, who went extinct 30.000 years ago.

[BRANCH]

Along time humans threw spear to kill a cave bear and killed it making out of its arm bone an flute after they cleaned the under of the bone and made from it a flute

[ImperiumRomanum]

The craziest part is that we weren't the inventors.