Some flutes I found at the British Museum. They are 2000 years old.
Very very cool! 
To (mis)quote Yoda, when two thousand years old you are, look that good you will not. 
–James
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. The card actually says:
- Pair of bronze flutes. Roman, 1st-2nd century AD
These flutes were probably used individually, the sound being produced by blowing across the mouthpice. They are restored from fragments, perhaps incorectly, and cannot now be played.
From the arrangement of finger holes, the scales would seem to be hexatonic. Also, I wonder if the mouthpiece is a raised embouchure hole, or if there’s an internal fipple.
they had south-american flutes at the British Museum too that dwarfed a low-D whistle.
and cannot now be played
I’ve come across a couple of Generations that fit such a description. Maybe the British Museum would be interested in having them???
The hole spacing looked a bit odd to me and I was wondering if one of them was for a membrane (like a dizi?) or if with three holes at the bottom could be played like a tabor pipe (How many holes does it have? hard to tell from the photo). If the allows assembly, the upper hole could be rotated to a thumb hole, maybe?
(I have been having fun with a fife and whistle that I have covered the holes with tape and playing like an octave flute, it is surprising how many different fingering options are out there)