Far below the surface of the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have mapped a 3,000 foot line of stones that looks less like a ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

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

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope has identified the universe’s most ancient supernova to date. This milestone not only redefines astronomical records but clarifies how the universe’s first ...