A 35,000 year-old stone axe unearthed with one of the oldest skeletons ever found in Egypt will be repatriated in the coming days after analysis was completed on the artefact Thursday in Belgium.
A team of Belgian archaelogists discovered the axe and skeleton, dating from the old archaic era in Sohag, upper Egypt and took them back to Louvain University for study, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said.
The find "shows the development of human species that lived in Egypt through the various ages," said Shaaban Abdel Gawad, supervisor of Egypt's general antiquities repatriation department.
The skeleton was returned to its homeland in August 2015 and Gawad said there are plans to put it and the carved stone axe on show at the National Museum Of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, south of Cairo.
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