LOS ANGELES — Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn’t take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests. A team from the ...

Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in ...

Hand axes are fairly common finds at sites dating between 2 million and 1 million years old. These sturdy tools have two sides (also called faces) and a sharp edge at one end. But hand axes are ...

Our ancestors in Kenya’s Southern Rift Valley made some pretty innovative tools. And they made them far earlier than previously thought — over one million years ago. The oldest innovations were axes ...

The hand axe was discovered by an international team of archaeologists working with The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), directed by Dr Ömer 'Can' Aksoy and Dr Gizem Kahraman Aksoy of TEOS Heritage.

What may be the world's largest prehistoric hand ax, measuring over 20 inches long, was found in Saudi Arabia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...