A chance discovery by a young boy on Shoreham Beach, West Sussex, has added a remarkable chapter to British archaeological history. Ben Witten, now nine years old, found what experts have confirmed to be a Neanderthal hand axe dating back 40,000 to 60,000 years while playing on the beach at age six.  “I was looking around, and I saw this shiny flint rock,” Witten told BBC News. “I just thought it looked different from all the other different pebbles and stones.” The discovery remained in Witten’s bedroom for three years, where he “kept losing it and finding it,” until a … Continue reading Sussex Boy Unearths 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Hand Axe Now Museum’s Best Find in a Decade