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 African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

History of Chinese Medicine: being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period. By Dr. K. Chimin Wong Dr. Wu Lien-Teh. Pp. xviii + 706 + 55 plates.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A retired professor from Western University and his collaborators have identified footprints of dinosaurs in South Africa that date back to the Cretaceous period. The 140-million-year-old tracks ...

Pope Francis died Monday morning at the age of 88, according to Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo. "At 7:35 this ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... along the coast of North Africa and Europe.