In this short video I show how I cut a clean mortise entirely by hand using a chisel and wooden mallet. You can follow each careful strike as the waste chips curl out of the joint and the walls become ...

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Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than scholars ...

In December 2025, to cope with the bitter cold in Haryana’s Nuh disrict, a group of young men tried to light a bonfire outside an Aadhaar service centre in Jimrawat village. Nuh is part of the Mewat ...