Yahoo News reported last week that scholars have excavated part of what is now the world's oldest known musical instrument: an ivory flute. Actually, three of them, found in Germany, which represent the first confirmation that Stone Age humans played music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1791 opera, Die Zauberflote, premiered months before the genius composer passed away, at age 35. We now know that Mozart's magic instrument was not mankind's first.

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