Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

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

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

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

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

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

India’s ancient Hindu civilization stands as one of the world’s oldest sources of knowledge, philosophy, and science. From ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

DNA extracted from an ancient skeleton in a pot is a genetic mixture of two distinct worlds - ...