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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

is home to some of the most breathtaking ancient sites in Africa. Among them stands Volubilis, an incredibly well-preserved Roman city near Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, offering a glimpse into the ...

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 ...

These findings will help tell the history of people in south-central Africa, says Maggie Katongo, an assistant keeper of archaeology at Livingstone Museum in Zambia, graduate student at Rice ...

It was the first time that anyone had created a complete genetic snapshot of an African from an ancient skeleton. Since then, other researchers have recovered DNA from skeletons unearthed in other ...