Fire sits at the center of how people think about being human, yet its beginnings stay oddly vague. Most readers carry a hazy ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

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 ...