A 2,500-year-old tomb has been found in Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.

Between July and November, archaeologists from the Archaeology Institute and the Khanh Hoa Museum excavated this site, collecting more than 2,000 objects including tools and jewelry made of bronze, iron, porcelain, bone and shells.

Dr. Tran Quy Thinh, the leader of the excavation group, said on-site discoveries have contributed significantly to knowledge of prehistoric development in Khanh Hoa and the southern part of the central region.

The ancient people in Vinh Yen also worked and interacted with residents of the Mekong River, downstream of Dong Nai river, and people in Phu Yen, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh

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Excavations at a Prehistoric site in Leicestershire, England have turned up a large number of flint tools and flakes.

Over 5000 worked flints came from this small area, including flint cores used for tool creation, blades, flakes and ‘debitage’ (small chips from tool-working), and scrapers, piercers and microlith tools with the latter being used in composite arrowheads. The Mesolithic people were occupying this site making and repairing broken flint weapons and tools on a large scale. Some of the microlith projectile points have impact fractures indicating that they had been used in arrowheads which had then been collected and reused. These tasks would have been carried out as part of a range of activities associated with their hunting expeditions.

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Archaeologists in Leicestershire have discovered an 8,000-year-old weapons factory.

Archaeologist Wayne Jarvis, who has led the dig, said: “What we’ve collected are a large number of very early flint artefacts. It’s an incredibly rare find.

“We know from the shape of the flints that they are from the mesolithic period – about 8,000 years ago.

“We’ve collected about 5,000 pieces of flint in a small area and it seems to have been a site where the arrows were made. The pieces of flint are largely discarded flakes from when the arrowheads were shaped.

“However, there are some complete bits that were probably arrowheads, although it’s possible they had other uses.

“We’ve found nothing like this before.”

The oldest stone tools ever found in Japan have been discovered in Shimane prefecture in Western Japan.

The tools, which had been sharpened like knives, date from the Middle Palaeolithic period, according to Kazuto Matsufuji, a professor at Kyoto’s Doshisha University, the newspaper said. The oldest stone tools previously found in Japan were less than 100,000 years old, the Yomiuri said.

In 2000, archeologist Shinichi Fujimura claimed he had found artifacts as old as 700,000 years old in the northern prefecture of Miyagi. He later confessed he fabricated the discovery.

Grinding stones, painted pots, granite tools and other artifacts dating back 3,300 years have been found in Sri Lanka, making them the oldest artifacts yet found on the island.

An archaeological site more than 3330 years old has been found in the Udaranchamadama area in Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka, by a group of local archaeologists.

According to a report in the Daily Mirror Online, the site had been discovered by Professor Raj Somadeva and his team while excavating an area belonging to the Sri Jayabodharama temple in Udaranchamadama.

The ruins of a cemetery had been found earlier in the Pahalaranchamadama school premises and this team believed that traces of the village that used the cemetery could be discovered from this excavation.