Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

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

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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

Scientists sequenced genomes from 28 individuals dated between 225 and 10,275 years old. These remains came from regions ...

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

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

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Books about the Americas, photography, Cuba, rampant western hypocrisy, the Roman empire, Africa and much more ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...