or the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, which offer exciting glimpses into ancient civilisations that once walked the Earth. However, one country that hardly ever gets a mention in the news is the ...

"One particular school that sparked my interest was a paleoanthropological field school in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, a country in East Africa. The Gorge is the most famous fossil bearing site on the ...

The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't, of course, look anything like a modern axe - there's no handle and there's no metal blade. It's in fact a piece of grey-green volcanic rock, a very beautiful ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. A river cuts through several layers of strata with four distinct beds. Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old.

It is home to Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, and Serengeti National Park, as well as Olduvai Gorge, a rich archaeological site often called “the cradle of civilization.” However, Tanzania ...