An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel ...

Archaeologist Laura Dietrich studies a replica Stone Age axe in Germany. While not from the Latvian site, such replicas reveal how ancient tools were used. Some 6,000 years ago in the northern reaches ...

A gardener weeding a raspberry patch in Potok Górny stumbled on a fragment of an ancient stone ax, photo show and archaeologists said. Google Street View August 2012 ...

In the right panel of Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych (circa 1455), the Virgin Mary sits with the baby Jesus, surrounded by angels. The left panel features the man who commissioned the work, Étienne ...

A haul of Stone Age artifacts included a highly ornamental deer antler that had been turned into an ax handle. The discovery is extremely rare, according to experts, and likely served multiple uses.

A 35,000-year-old stone ax discovered in northern Australia is the oldest known tool with ground edges, researchers reported on Saturday (Nov. 6). Humans' hominid ancestors have been using stone tools ...

Six millennia after a stone ax was carved, it was rediscovered by a pair of Ohio teens on an archaeological dig at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. The Washington Post reports Mount Vernon ...

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