New evidence in England suggests that Neanderthals lit and controlled fires long before the first recorded use of controlled ...

Archaeologists in Suffolk, UK uncovered a 400,000-year-old campfire, raising major questions about when early humans first ...

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

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

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

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

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...