Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

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

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

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

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

From rural schools award-winning projects, Mariam Issoufou is turning traditional, climate-savvy architecture into a ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

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.

Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...