The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...

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

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in the Turkish Black Sea region province of Karabuk have uncovered a fourth-century AD reception ...

The Vatican released Pope Leo's apostolic letter "on the importance of archaeology," Dec. 11, "on the occasion of the ...

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...

Learn how chemical signatures in the Hjortspring boat’s caulking pointed researchers toward its Baltic origins.

For the volunteer group working tirelessly to bring Glasgow’s only surviving medieval castle “back to life”, this is about ...