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

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

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

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

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Our treasure, our asset is the cultural heritage of the past inhabitants which depicts the African ideas, philosophy and psychology as an African man, Nigeria in particular. It has a great cultural ...

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