Question: What is the oldest known musical instrument in world history?
Answer: The oldest known instrument is the Divje Babe flute, a 50,000 to 60,000-year-old Neanderthal artifact discovered in Slovenia in 1995. Carved from a young cave bear’s thighbone with four distinct, spaced holes, it suggests Neanderthals used music for expression. Other early instruments include 40,000-year-old vulture-bone and ivory flutes found in Germany.
