A groundbreaking pilot excavation in the Iraqi desert uncovered over 850 Stone Age artifacts up to 1.5 million years old, shedding new light on human evolution in the Arabian Peninsula. An ...

Interestingly, all the artifacts were found on the surface of the ground, not buried deep in the soil. These artifacts ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

Archaeologist Discovers a Hoard of Paleolithic Artifacts From Ancient Lake, Most Notable Are 1,500-Yr-Old Hand Axes In 2024, ...

I unearthed this 'percussion hand tool' whilst gardening in Bush Hill Park, Enfield. It appears to have been worked from a naturally axe shaped nodule. It is extremely tactile with multiple ...

Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that ...

The collected artifacts range from hand axes from the Early or Old Paleolithic to Levallois reduction flakes from the Middle Paleolithic. "The next step will be to secure funding, with which I ...

Close-up detail of the hand-axe like object in Jean Fouquet's "Étienne Chevalier with Saint Stephen," left panel of "The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet. Credit must be given to the ...

Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedition in the Iraqi ...