This List Of The 10 Oldest Surviving Everyday Objects Includes The World’s Oldest Condom

6) Oldest Instrument

This ancient bone flute was made in Germany around 40,000 years ago. Wouldn’t you just love to know what sort of tunes they bashed out on it? I expect it was probably something along the lines of this epic/radical flute drop (45 seconds in):

Maybe not. I like to imagine our distant relatives having a disco dance to some mad flute but I’m fairly sure this particular instrument predates even the Bee Gees.