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

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 ...

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

The discoveries were focused on the Al-Shabakah area, which was once a large lake during the Pleistocene epoch but is now a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...