The United Nations cultural organisation has added a remote Aboriginal site featuring one million carvings that potentially date back 50,000 years to its World Heritage list. Located on the Burrup ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Women adorned in traditional garments and jewelry encircle men dancing with swords and elaborate head coverings in the ...

In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a ...

The discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia has flung open the door into a new chapter of ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, which came from modern humans leaving Eurasia and mixing with Denisovans in ...

Growing fonio requires little water, which makes it the perfect grain for drier areas. It has a short growth cycle, so ...

For the first time, scientists decoded a complete genome from a 4,800-year-old Egyptian, revealing surprising Middle Eastern ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...