More than a dozen stone knives have been found in the ancient Maya city of Kulubá near a sacrificial altar (not pictured). Stock image: A Maya stone altar in Copán, Honduras.

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

Measuring just 2.9 inches (7.3 centimeters) long, the tool looks a bit like a small prehistoric Swiss Army knife. The sharp-edged flint blade was fastened to a wooden handle with birch tar, and a ...

Flint blades, or knives, were ancient cutting tools made from flint stones, according to Cotswold Archaeology. Experts said the heavy clay soils in the Kernmünsterland are not ideal for artifact ...

Zeigler recovered the knife in two pieces — the second half discovered nearly a year after the first in the exact same spot. The 6-inch blade is made of a gray chert, or flint, stone.

“Nothing beats the excitement of holding a 200,000 year old fossil deer bone or an ancient flint knife that we discovered in the field digging with our own hands”, says Prof. Reuven Yeshurun ...

FLORENCE — By all accounts, it was an improbable discovery. Ben Zeigler was hoping to uncover something from the last thousand years when he went hunting for artifacts along the Pee Dee River in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an "exceptional" ancient Celtic burial ground and an early farming settlement from the Stone Age in the Czech ... iron knives, ceramic vessels and flint fire-making sets.

An ancient food vessel, or pot, from the Bronze Age is on display at Kirkcaldy Galleries museum in Fife. The 5,000-year-old pot has been re-constructed after it was found in pieces more than 40 ...