Walk through any village or scroll past historic photos, and you will notice the same pattern: hand-dug wells are almost always perfect circles. The shape shows up in Bronze-Age stepwells in India, ...

Fresh radar work on the Giza Plateau is reviving one of archaeology’s most persistent questions: what, if anything, lies ...

A guide to visiting the temples of Angkor, including which temples to visit, buying Angkot Wat tickets, best places for an Angkor Wat sunset.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...