While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

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

Underwater archaeologists announced they had discovered the ancient wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast ...

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 ...

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

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

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new clues about where these raiders came from.

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

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

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

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...