BEIJING-- China's biggest cement producer by output - Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd - announced Wednesday its net profit plunged nearly 51 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2012. The sharp ...

A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the ...

It’s about the journey, not the destination, when it comes to road trips. In her travels to visit national parks across the United States, TCPalm reporter Laurie K. Blandford has come across the ...

WASHINGTON – A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument – and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn ...

The shell was found during the 1931 excavation of a cave with prehistoric wall paintings in the French Pyrenees and assumed to be a ceremonial drinking cup. Archaeologists from the University of ...

Anyone who's spent any time in the Florida Keys knows the local symbol is the conch (pronounced konk) shell. The island chain is the Conch Republic. People who were born there are Conchs. It’s the Key ...