Trove of Ice Age Axes Found on the Bottom of the North Sea
	During the Ice Age, the North Sea was just a grassy plain dwelt by mammoths, deer and ... humans. Now, the Dutch Jan Meulmeester, an amateur archaeologist, has discovered a unique collection of Stone Age hand axes made of material coming from the bottom of the North Sea. 28 axes, possibly up to 100,000 years old, were encountered in marine sand and gravel scooped up by Hanson, a British construction materials company. The axes were acc ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oetzi, The Oldest Preserved Human Being: 5,300 Years Old
	At first sight, it looked like a crime place. A drought cadaver was lying face downward, half stuck in the ice. An accidental death or a crime? Or just another mountaineering victim at 3,200 m (10,660 ft) height in the Tirol Alps? The Ice Man was found in September 1991 by casualty by a couple of German mountaineers wandering on the Mount Similaun (in Oetztal Alps, at the border between Austria and Italy). The extremely warm summer in ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia