In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans ... During the period when these blades were ...

Learn about the natural bark remedy used by African midwives for centuries to reduce pain, relax muscles, and improve ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ... Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell 'Woody,' 'Spicy' and 'Sweet ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...