The Great Temple of Yeha, near Aksum, was built around 700 B.C. and is one of the most ancient and biggest standing structures in sub-Saharan Africa.(ArtushFoto/ Adobe Stock) In 2009, Harrower and ...

Understanding humanity's shared history means understanding what happened in Africa. But figuring out what happened in Africa has been a difficult task. Not every area is well represented in the ...

Four ancient youngsters, one pair from around 8,000 years ago and another from about 3,000 years ago, have opened a window on humankind’s far older, far-flung African origins. Analyses of the ...

The remains were found in this cave in the highlands of Ethiopia An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time. Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was ...

The East African man’s genome, the first map of ancient human DNA from Africa, helped to determine that a population closely related to Europe’s first farmers made major inroads in Africa ...