“Scholars today recognize Africa as the source of our common ancestry. But in 1974, Senegalese scholar and humanist Cheikh ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

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

Ancient Greek historians disagreed on the origin of the Etruscans, who deeply influenced the Ancient Romans and traded with ...

The poll highlights a rising international interest in Chinese culture. About 81.6 percent of respondents believe that ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

DNA analysis of ancient donkey remains supports this timeline, showing distinct domestication events that spread outward from Africa. This early domestication coincided with the rise of the first ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first humans.