Nature World: Fire was tamed as many as 300,000 years ago, according to the recent discovery of the earliest evidence of repeated fire burning in one place over a period of time.
Although most estimates place the discovery of fire over 1 million years ago, exactly when our ancestors began harnessing it for their daily needs is still very much under debate.
Digging in a cave located in modern-day Israel, archaeologists uncovered a pile of wood ash in its center. Infrared spectroscopy revealed it to contain...