Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...

Billy Joel famously sang, we didn't start the fire - it was always burning since the world's been turning. But that's not entirely true. Humans do start fires to cook, to heat, to gather around.

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of ancient humans igniting fires: a 400,000-year-old open-air hearth buried in an old clay pit in southern England. The study, published in the journal ...

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...

Few things grip the human imagination quite like a civilization that was once great - building cities, writing laws, trading across continents - and then simply disappeared. Not conquered, not ...

An artist's interpretation of an early human ancestor striking flint on a piece of iron pyrite. Craig Williams, The Trustees of the British Museum Archaeologists were digging at a site in England when ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of ancient humans igniting fires: a 400,000-year-old open-air hearth buried in an old clay pit in southern England. The study, published in the journal ...