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 ...

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

In Greek mythology, the giant Atlas was condemned to eternally hold up the sky as punishment for his defeat by Zeus in the ...

Political experts told NBC News that the reports' language regarding "civilization erasure" and immigration echoes "great ...

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

Two young Greek sisters in South Africa have achieved international acclaim, with a project to protect the Parthenon, using ...

Everyone's focused on what the book says about the RFK Jr. scandal. But one of its more bizarre elements, is what it doesn't ...

DNA extracted from an ancient skeleton in a pot is a genetic mixture of two distinct worlds - ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert has unearthed a forgotten African kingdom.