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 ...

A stone hand axe could always use a few accessories. An improbable new set of tools combines two state-of-the-art technologies that were created 1.8 million years apart: Prehistoric hand axes and 3-D ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These aren't your average prehistoric stone tools — they also have 500,000-year-old elephant residue on them. Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University found "hand axes" and "scrapers" among elephant ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

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 ...

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 ...