What Exactly are We Accelerating? The African Union has made headlines with the Nouakchott Declaration, marking the launch of ...

Witness the remarkable transformation of scrap into legend as we forge the mythical ANUBIS sword from a rusted, discarded ...

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

The second phase of joint archaeological research by Iranian and Chinese teams has commenced at the historical site of Masouleh, which is situated in northern Iran. The project is conducted under the ...

Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion An aerial photo of researchers standing near excavated trackways in Kenya.

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Protein sequences preserved in four ...

In 1964, UNESCO launched the elaboration of the General History of Africa with a view to remedy the general ignorance on Africa’s history. The challenge consisted of reconstructing Africa’s history, ...

A unique eight-sided Roman ring unearthed in the UK reveals a small glimpse into Roman Britain. The artifact, dating back to 200-410 A.D., was found by Wessex Archaeology.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...

For decades, archaeologists have sought to reconstruct the history of metallurgy in human prehistory. A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports by a team of researchers from ...

Last weekend, insurgents from IS-aligned groups the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram launched a pre-dawn raid on a military base in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, ...

The primary source of this ancient lead pollution was silver mining. The process of extracting silver from lead-rich galena ore released significant amounts of lead into the atmosphere, a stark ...