Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Researchers spent four years analyzing to rule out natural wildfires. Geochemical tests showed temperatures had exceeded 700 degrees Celsius.

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is now eastern ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

European travel expert Rick Steves says tourists should visit this rather macabre attraction found in Italy that houses ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Much of human history has been influenced and shaped by warfare. Warfare itself predates history, with the squabbles and fights […] ...