In the coastal desert of Peru, a line of crumbling stone towers rises from the sand, framing the horizon with an almost ...

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.

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

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle ...