Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Beneath the sands of Saqqara lies the Serapeum, where colossal granite boxes spark debate over whether ancient builders had ...

For more than a century, researchers have documented physical evidence in Egypt that does not match the tools officially ...

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...