You know the usual suspects: blade, can opener, tiny scissors. But the real fun of a Swiss Army Knife? It's all the unexpected stuff packed in between. For over 140 years, its engineers have been ...

Archaeologists with Wessex Archaeology were working through an excavation ahead of a habitat project when they came across a wooden tool that turned out to be one of the oldest and most complete ever ...

Antique tools are more than just relics of the past — they can also be resold for surprising amounts. While not every screwdriver or hammer will be worth a lot, some of these historical tools were ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

A trove of rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in south-west China reveals that early humans in the region may have relied heavily on underground plants like roots and tubers for sustenance.

Trepanation is the first neurosurgical procedure humans ever performed, and it has been practiced across times and cultures, experts said.