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 ...

The museum's reopening serves as a symbolic display of stability ahead of planned elections in 2026, one expert told NBC News ...

Injuries were reported in an attack that the Syrian government’s news agency said happened near the ancient city of Palmyra.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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