The Zanj, enslaved people largely from Africa, rebelled at the same time they were ordered to build a massive system of ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For ...

Ancient sources describe similar techniques for producing raisin wines. Columella, a Roman agricultural writer, noted that ...

African pottery is a rich tradition that has been passed down generations. It is functional as well as artistic. The craft ...

TRAILING vibrant pink bougainvillaea frames white-washed buildings, spilling across blue window shutters and doors.  A ...

Djerba is speculated to have been the island of the lotus-eaters where Odysseus was stranded on his voyage through the ...

When Kevin Hatala asks his students on the first day of class, “What are the characteristics that make us human?” the first response they tend to give is opposable thumbs. “But if you look ...

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Sequences of a protein derived from a ...

Analysis of ancient proteins preserved in fossilized ... This is largely because aDNA does not survive well in African hominin fossils older than 20,000 years of age. Paranthropus, which lived ...