adding fuel to the theory that humans and their ancestors originated in Africa. In 1999, UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage site, referring to it as the “undisputed Cradle of Humankind.” ...

a curator emeritus at South Africa’s Transvaal Museum, who began studying the caves in the 1950s. The first major discovery of a hominid from the Cradle came in 1924, when the anatomist Raymond ...

“Africa stands as the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of humanity, and the foundation upon which the great societies of the world were built. The earliest evidence of human life ...

At their peak before the Covid-19, the caves received about 100,000 tourists a year Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein ... within the Cradle of Humankind ...

KRUGERSDORP, South Africa — Seated on sandbags in South ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artifacts for paleontologists since it ...

Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for palaeontologists since it was first discovered.

Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for ...