Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

A new discovery has rewritten the timeline of Egypt's early dynasties, placing the rise of the New Kingdom nearly a century later than previously thought.The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to ...

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 ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Learning to light our own fires was one of the great turning points in human history, offering our ancestors warmth, a place ...

The discovery pushes back global fire-making timelines and suggests our ancestors transported materials, such as iron pyrite, ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...