A 6-year-old’s beach find turns out to be a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal hand axe, now displayed in Worthing Museum.

This axe, discovered in 1859, was the first strong evidence that we have been here for much longer. It is thought to be around 400,000 years old and, since then, even older stone tools have been ...

"The flint axe was the Swiss Army knife of its time. We know from research work that the part of the human brain which enables us to create such a tool is the same part responsible for forming ...