World's earliest sailors found?

Greece's culture ministry says archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world's earliest sea voyages.

Archaeologists from Greece and the United States have found rough axes and other tools thought to be between 130,000 and 700,000 years old in shelters on the island's south coast.

Crete has been separated from the mainland for about five million years, so whoever made the tools must have travelled there by sea, a trip of at least 40 miles.

The previous earliest evidence of open-sea travel dates back about 60,000 years. .