For years, a cluster of enigmatic hollows near Stonehenge puzzled researchers and visitors alike. Now, a suite of new ...

Evidence from eastern England suggests ancient humans may have mastered fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than believed, ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

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

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

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