Across the African continent, an old political conversation has returned with troubling familiarity. Yet beneath the surface, ...

million-year-old fossils revealed that this species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Human rights groups say the world must pay more attention to the assault on one of Africa’s oldest Christian communities.

A Sanskrit–Greek stele and Buddha statue found in ancient Berenike, Egypt, reveal deep cultural links between Indian traders ...

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

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...