A student taking part in his first ever archaeological dig has discovered an incredible ax dating back to the 'New Stone Age.' Joe Neal, a second-year archaeology student at the University of Wales ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...

Prior to the coming of French and English traders, who brought with them iron tools, Native Americans in this region were limited to using wood and stone for their weapons and tools. A wide range of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Different views of the richly decorated antler from Sweden. Archaeologists think it was first ...

The Stone Two-Handed Axe is a weapon to fight enemies and destroy boulders in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The weapon can be crafted by using a combination of an axe and a stone. However, there are ...

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 ...

An exquisitely decorated 7,500-year-old antler from central Sweden was first used as a battle ax and later probably as a fishing harpoon during the Stone Age, a new study suggests. Researchers found ...

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 ...

The Axe in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one tool you'll want to prioritise creating when you start life on your island. Not only will an Axe chop down any meddlesome tree in your path in Animal ...

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 ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...