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

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

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

What is the oldest country in the world? Depending on who you ask, you’ll get a variety of responses. Some might say it’s a ...

A groundbreaking study reveals a hidden system beneath Egypt’s oldest pyramid—suggesting ancient engineers used a forgotten ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

Fresh research into the spectacular rock art of southwest Texas has revealed that ancient hunter-gatherers maintained a sophisticated belief system for more than four millennia, creating elaborate ...

The Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest, was a thriving society in what is now Pakistan and northwest India ...

A series of lengthy droughts brought about the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, a new study finds.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Extraction and sequencing of ancient DNA has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of numerous extinct species, but DNA can only tell us so much. RNA, however, can tell us which genes were actually ...

The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a ...