Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more ...

Around 125 years ago, ancient tools used by Roman surgeons were found ... "You can see the attention devoted to crafting the socket where the iron scalpel blade was originally inserted into ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...

But they could harvest iron from meteorites to make weapons, tools, and decorative objects ... found seemed to confirm their suspicions. These ancient treasures came from a fallen meteorite.

while ancient iron items are usually corroded, it’s still possible to work out how they are likely to have been used. Image caption, These models show how work tools would have looked in Ancient ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more ...