For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

As global investment in artificial intelligence surges, Africa is still searching for its own model, caught between enormous demographic potential and persistent structural constraints. High ...

Johns Hopkins University Press and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched the world’s first searchable digital map ...

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.