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The moment early humans learned to control fire changed the course of history.The breakthrough fueled brain development, transformed the human body and gave our ancestors warmth, light and protection in an unforgiving world.Now, a…

The first photos from inside the doomed Maldives cave system where five Italian divers died have now been released by the team that recovered their bodies.The group of divers set off to explore deep-sea caverns in the Vaavu Atoll last…

Elite Finnish divers have joined a bid to find the remains of a team of Italians who died inside sea caves in the Maldives - days after a local rescuer perished in the search operation.Mohamed Mahudhee, a staff sergeant in the Maldivian…

A miner was miraculously rescued from a flooded cave by the Mexican army two weeks after the tunnel collapsed.Francisco Zapata Nájera, 42, had been buried some 985ft underground when disaster struck at a gold mine in the northern state…

Newly uncovered cave art in Europe has revealed that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic expression long before modern humans arrived, rewriting the story of human cultural origins.  Researchers identified hand stencils, geometric…

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Hundreds of human bones found in an underground cave in Guatemala suggest a chilling human sacrifice took place there.Cueva de Sangre, or the 'Blood Cave', is located underneath the archaeological site of Dos Pilas in Petén, Guatemala. …