The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

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 ...

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

It might have been used in some kind of ritual.

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

Previously unknown early medieval settlement unearthed during work on wind farm - The discovery is one of several made during archaeological excavations ...

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring ...

Hunter-gatherers thrived in Florida for more than eight millennia before they began to make pottery around 2600 b.c., during the Late Archaic period. This invention seems to have dramatically changed ...

Archaeologists reveal hidden ancient sites across Greece’s Cyclades islands, uncovering long-lost rural landscapes.

You can’t beat a class where you get to play in the dirt,” said Donald Gaff, UNI professor of anthropology. Standing on a ...