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 ...

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

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

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

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 ...

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

A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative ...

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 ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...