A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

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 ...

FRENCH marine archaeologists have uncovered a colossal Stone Age wall off the coast of Brittany – and they believe it could ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...

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

Humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, research suggests, after the discovery in the UK of ancient axes created using flames. The find, at a disused clay pit near Barnham, in west Suffolk, ...

The hearth was situated close to a natural water source where these early humans are thought to have set up camp.