Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

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

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...

Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

Some of the carved masks indicated that the nearby Roman theater hosted much more than just staged dramas.

A team of scientists from Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants ...