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.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

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

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

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 ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

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 ...

Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation, with almost 240 million residents — is experiencing urban growth that few countries ...