Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

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Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

A cube-shaped skull from 1,400 years ago is opening a mystery that may reshape our understanding of the ancient world.

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

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

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