A traveling art exhibit celebrating African civilizations, Egyptian mythology, and historic landscapes arrives in ...

Although undated, the archaeological context provides a reliable timeframe. Coins minted during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (1623–1640) were found in the same room, placing their creation ...

Changing climate conditions have been known to foster human evolution throughout history, especially in Africa, where our story first unfolded. However, new research has flipped the script on a common ...

A population of early humans lived in southern Africa in near isolation for at least 200,000 years, according to a sweeping new analysis of ancient DNA drawn from 28 people who lived there between ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient human genomes from southernmost Africa, shedding new light on early human history in a region known for its rich archaeological past. The DNA of 13 individuals ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

In this first episode, Zeinab Badawi travels across the continent examining the origins of humankind; how and why we evolved in Africa - Africa is the greatest exporter of all time: every human being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics. Werner ...