Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic breakthroughs are finally pulling back the curtain on migrations and “ghost ...

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studying ancient African societies, like Great Zimbabwe, can reveal how communities dealt with disease and pandemics. Werner ...

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...

A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in ...

Africa is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations—nations whose histories span thousands of years, built on foundations of resilience, innovation, and cultural depth. These civilizations have ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...