MIT researchers analyzed an ancient Pompeii construction site to determine how the ancient Romans produced concrete that ...

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

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

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

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

SCIENTISTS excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods ...

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 ...

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

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

An extraordinarily well-preserved ancient Roman construction site in Pompeii has provided the clearest evidence yet of how ...

Technology is helping researchers uncover details that have been lost over time, such as towers, symbols of wealth and power.