I willingly lie to my child about Santa Claus and I make no apologies. In fact, I don't believe I could ever feel an ounce of ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

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

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

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

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took place.

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

Determining the exact age of the Giza Pyramids is one of archaeology’s greatest challenges. In this episode, we explore the ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...