Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

The recent unearthing of ancient African beads has shed new light on the extensive trading systems that existed some 4,000 years ago. These discoveries have expanded our knowledge of international ...

Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic breakthroughs are finally pulling back the curtain on migrations and “ghost ...

African typographers are on a mission to preserve and revive ancient scripts, which are an important part of the continent's ...