Tests at a Tokyo lab indicate that seven axes excavated in Malaysia are 1.83 million years old. The previously oldest-known stone tools in Malaysia are 200,000 years old, and were found at the same site. A brick factory sits on a 2,000-year-old site on the Indonesian island of Bali. Workers have found stone artifacts, a […]

Oetzi the Iceman suffered a gash in his hand several days before he was shot in the back with an arrow, according to German and Italian scientists. “We are now able to make the first assertions as to the age and chronology of the injuries,” said leader Andreas Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians University. Protesters continue to […]