The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An archeologist measures the biggest of two "giant" prehistoric hand axes uncovered in the south of England.Archaeology South-East ...

Archaeologists in Kent, England have unearthed a collection of prehistoric hand axes that are among the largest and oldest known stone tools found in Britain. The ancient artifacts, two of which ...

Archaeologists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), led by archaeologist Ella Egberts, unearthed ancient stone tools in Iraq's Western Desert. According to Arkeonews.net, the team discovered ...

Even our earliest human ancestors made and used technology — something we can look back on thanks to the lasting nature of stone tools. An exceptionally high density of giant hand axes dated to ...

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel Harrison picked up the hand-sized flintstone which tour guide Martin Simpson ...

The Royal Commission for AlUla’s research teams in northwestern Saudi Arabia, continue to unravel ancient mysteries, discovering what is believed to be the largest stone “hand axe” found anywhere in ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric ‘paradise’ dating back half a million years. Experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University have been excavating the site ...

Researchers from University College London's Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a cache of 800 stone artefacts dating to more than 300,000 years ago. The find includes one of the largest ...

Maayan Shemer, excavation director for the Israel Antiquities Authority, showing a half-million year-old hand axe. An astonishing discovery in Jaljulia, an Israeli-Arab town in Israel near Kfar Saba ...