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.

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...

Excited scientists have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically ...

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

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

A 400,000-year-old hearth in an English clay pit suggests our distant cousins were making and tending fire far earlier than ...

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

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

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

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