By: Dr Patrick Akhere EbojeleBenin City’s story has always been one of resilience, history, and reinvention. From its origins as the political and cultural heart of the ancient Benin Empire, the ...

Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted amid a yearslong conflict consuming the country.

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

A hippopotamus ivory tusk discovered at the prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya site in the Jordan Valley, located south of the Sea of Galilee. Credit: Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority New research is ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Deep in a cave near the town of Toirano in northern Italy, archaeologists have uncovered ancient human hand and footprints that are 14,000 years old. Publishing their findings in the journal eLife, ...

An estimated 50,000 Kenyans died during the violent conflict between Mau Mau guerrillas and British forces, and from disease ...