A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

From ancient cities buried beneath the sands to mummies revealing new secrets, 2021 brought a wave of remarkable ...

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

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

The approximately 9,000-year-old grave of the shaman from Bad Dürrenberg (Saalekreis district) is one of the most spectacular ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Professor Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the British Museum, said it was the “most exciting discovery of ...

A series of 16 massive shafts forming a circle over 1.25 miles wide have been confirmed to be the work of ancient humans ...

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

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Two Roman swords found in Gloucestershire reveal a hidden settlement dating back 2,000 years and the possible remains of a ...