But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857, 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph. Video by Sanjana ...

Yet no plaque marks the spot where Gillham made history with the first commercially released electrical recording. Archivists at the oldest label in the world, now owned by Sony Music, cannot ...

Tina introduces the oldest recording in the BBC Archives of Queen Elizabeth II.

Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed a large, carved stone in an ancient cremation ...