A hearth dated to 400,000 years ago has been unearthed near the village of Barnham in eastern England, CNN reports.

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by early humans.

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

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 ...

Polish authorities have arrested a prominent Russian academic from St Petersburg's world-famous Hermitage Museum who is ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

An international research team led by the British Museum has unearthed in a field in Suffolk the oldest known material ...

Archaeology and cutting-edge science have come together to unlock secrets and rewrite stories of the Lancaster district's ancient past.Human remains ...

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