The arid deserts of north Arabian Arabia do not seem to be the kind of climate early humans would have loved, but new finds are rewriting that hypothesis. Archaeologists have found life-size camel, ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and figures that appear to predate our own species. The latest discoveries ...

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 ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

SHOHAM, Israel (AP) — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 ...