New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- Researchers have now discovered the earliest known instance of human-made fire, rewriting the timeline of when humans first created fire.

The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years, far earlier than previously thought, BBC reported.

According to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk, humans had mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known.

It is known that humans used natural fire more than 1 million years ago, but until now, the earliest unambiguous example of humans lighting fires came from a site in northern France, dating from 50,000 years ago, the Guardian reported. ...