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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

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

The search for the biblical Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and astronomy, but a new claim from a NASA comet ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...

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

Archaeology and cutting-edge science have come together to unlock secrets and rewrite stories of the Lancaster district's ancient past.Human remains ...

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