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

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

Researchers are exploring the idea that one hemisphere of Earth, dominated by the Pacific Ocean, is losing internal heat ...

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

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

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

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

One of the biggest studies yet conducted of the DNA of ancient Southern African hunter-gatherer people has upended previous theories about the origin of the Khoe and San peoples. Conducted by ...

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

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than ...