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Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be 400,000 years old.

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took ...

An ancient lake reemerged in Death Valley National Park, after the California desert region experienced a period of record ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

Between September and November, 2.41 inches of rain fell -- more than what typically falls in the desert landscape in one year.