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 ...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to natter with a Neanderthal or have a heart-to-heart with Homo Erectus, then ...

Discover the 18 countries of West Asia. Learn about their capitals, current 2026 news, and the difference between West Asia ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Ancient DNA from Ajvide graves shows Stone Age burials often grouped extended relatives, highlighting the importance of wider ...

Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said that Africa, particularly Black people, once possessed vast knowledge and ...

For the past 55 years, Hakan Ozbingol has got up at 3:00 am every day during Ramadan to play his davul, a large double-headed drum ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

In Africa, colonialism has mostly been studied as something imposed from outside, for example from Europe in the 19th and ...

Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.