Archaeologists have always worked to connect the stories in ancient texts with what lies buried underground. These efforts ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

Ancient manuscripts hold valuable historical insights, but over time, age and poor storage conditions can damage their ...

Africa’s share of global tourism is strikingly small. In 2023, the continent welcomed just 5.8% of the world’s 1.3 billion ...

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Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...

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Cutting-edge imaging technologies are helping archaeologists uncover the secrets of vast outdoor sites, revealing the rich ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived in southern Africa ...

All volumes are richly illustrated with maps, charts, figures and diagrams ... this presence has been considered over time since ancient times, to illustrate the different waves of “outflows” from ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...