The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 ...

The holidays are the perfect time to bring back nostalgic recipes. These classic Christmas dishes will spark joy and fond ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Much of human history has been influenced and shaped by warfare. Warfare itself predates history, with the squabbles and fights […] ...

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

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 ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

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 ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...