Archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest known musical instruments — a 30,000-year-old flute finely carved from a woolly mammoth’s ivory tusk in southern Germany. “The findings would point to the region as one of the key areas of cultural innovation at the start of the Upper Paleolithic and demonstrate that the origins of music can be traced back to the European Ice Age over 30,000 years ago. The flute would have been capable of playing relatively complex melodies.”