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

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

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The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Excited scientists have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging coffins.

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

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

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