The lost instruments of Teotihuacan will soon be heard again
An ancient city is about to have its “soundscape” recorded
ONE AFTERNOON last December Arnd Adje Both, a researcher at Huddersfield University, in Britain, stood on top of the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, in Mexico, and blew into a conch-shell trumpet, sounding a note that echoed in the plaza far below. Later this year—covid-19 permitting—he hopes to return with a group of colleagues to conduct an aural examination of the site using replicas of the ancient instruments dug up there.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Taking soundings in Teotihuacan”
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