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

Are people willing to believe in AI because it taps into myths that are deeply ingrained in their imaginations?

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Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from fossils and other analysis are displayed in museums, educational materials ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

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

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...

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

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

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

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...