Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa’s archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it ...

Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have sunk an Egyptian city.

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea ...

The Essence of the Crown exhibition centers around the impact hair has on the African American culture.

Federal judges will weigh a request to bring Alabama back under the pre-clearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act after ruling the state intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago—a pivotal period in Earth's ...

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the earliest known hominids appear in the fossil record.

Microbiology and Infectious Disease A SHERLOCK toolbox for the eco-epidemiological surveillance of animal African trypanosomosis reveals a similar parasite diversity in domestic pigs in two ancient ...