Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early ...

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

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

but in fact it's a very carefully-shaped tool called a hand axe, made out of flint. These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age.

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age ... of tools that let people craft more and more complex wooden instruments, particularly polished stone axes.

A Stone Age axe has ... Nine other flint tools, also dating back thousands of years, were also found in the dig, all of which were in good condition. Dr Bates said the axe was still sharp and ...

Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in ... These artifacts include ancient hand axes from the Early or Old Paleolithic, ...

They used flint tools to hunt animals ... JavaScript is required to view this activity. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers ...

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