Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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 ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

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

For decades, scientists have wondered whether life ever existed beyond Earth. Now, a discovery on Mars might finally bring us ...

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative technology.

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

By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...