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

Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...

A previously unknown early medieval settlement has been unearthed in Suffolk during preparatory work for an offshore wind ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Archaeologists in France found a hidden hoard of Roman coins buried beneath a village with ancient roots.

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

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

ZDF Studios and Impossible Factual, who have already partnered on several documentaries, are teaming up again on two programs ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

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