Excited scientists have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

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Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.