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

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

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

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

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

There were many ways in which the elites of ancient Roman society flaunted their wealth. They built vast villas, sponsored ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

By Ben BRAKOFor centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.