Archaeologists Sifted Through an Ancient Lakebed—And Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Tools
A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...
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Hundreds of Stone Age, ancient objects found during pilot excavation stun explorers
A groundbreaking pilot excavation in the Iraqi desert uncovered over 850 Stone Age artifacts up to 1.5 million years old, shedding new light on human evolution in the Arabian Peninsula. An ...
‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in the Al-Shabakah area of the Iraqi Western Desert.