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‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early ...
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 Paleolithic eras.Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...
Hand axes discovered in Iraqi desert may go back 1.5 million years
Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...
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Stone axes up to 1.5 million years old find in Iraq
Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedition in the Iraqi ...