These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

A fingerprint preserved in ancient tar and new chemical clues are helping scientists trace the origins of Scandinavia’s ...

Two iron ankle shackles, buried for about 2,200 years in the Egyptian desert, have revealed new evidence of forced labor.

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

These villains are so old and powerful that they see humans as mere insects whose lives begin and end within the blink of an ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Fossilized footprints found in both Laetoli, Tanzania, and Trachilos, Crete, may be the earliest evidence of upright walking.