A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

During excavations in the village of Senon, archaeologists found three 1,700-year-old jugs packed with approximately 40,000 ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

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

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

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

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

ZDF Studios and Impossible Factual, who have already partnered on several documentaries, are teaming up again on two programs ...

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