The hearth was situated close to a natural water source where these early humans are thought to have set up camp.

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 ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

New evidence in England suggests that Neanderthals lit and controlled fires long before the first recorded use of controlled ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

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A previously undiscovered 1,600-year-old burial site in northern England could provide key clues about a a largely undocumented period in British history, officials announced this week. The government ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

The remains of an ancient Roman fort dating back nearly 2,000 years have been unearthed underneath a bus station in southern England. The fort, located in Exeter, is a “very important and completely ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

After 1,400 years lying undisturbed beneath British farmland, an ancient Anglo-Saxon warrior had a rude awakening in 2018 when a group of amateur metal detectorists stumbled across his burial site and ...