The island hopping is incredible, but Greece's ancient ruins, ski resorts, wineries, thermal pools, and pristine beaches ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before ...

A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians ...

Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh has widely been thought to be the final resting place of the ark, thanks to a conspiracy peddled ...

This map of the world is based on Herodotus ... According to Roman writer Pliny the Elder, they lived in the ancient North African territory of Aethiopia, and were widely attested.

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...

Italy was last to join in the contest of the powers for the appropriation of African resources, and consequently all she could do was to take what the others had left. The territories most suitable ...