A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

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

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

Technology is helping researchers uncover details that have been lost over time, such as towers, symbols of wealth and power.

Let’s get oriented: this 36-mile loop begins near Kane, Pennsylvania, a charming town that serves as the perfect launch point for your forest immersion therapy. The route forms a figure-eight pattern ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.