A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete

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

Pottery Survives 10,000 Year in Lake Biwa in Japan

Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...
Science News

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...
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Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars

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

Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized

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

Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

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

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

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

Neanderthals harnessed fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...
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'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...