The Byzantine Christian settlement has been discovered in Jordan, marked on the Madaba Mosaic Map, the oldest surviving ...

Under the scorching sun at the Berkane Stadium on Saturday evening, Ghanaian midfielder Grace Asantewaa's influence stretched across the pitch in a masterful performance that inspired the Black Queens ...

Long before modern borders, ancient builders in West Africa raised hundreds of stone circles across the region. Often ...

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, Scipio ...

This paper presents a remote sensing workflow for identifying activities and challenges that threaten past and traditional water management systems. High-resolution imagery and a standardised image ...

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the ...

Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably partial and subjective, ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...

New research challenges the long-standing belief that northern Africa underwent a dry period crucial to human evolution. Instead, scientists now suggest that the region may have experienced stable, ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...