Dated to the 8th century BCE, Douroula bears the most ancient testimony to the development of iron production currently identified in Burkina Faso, and illustrates this first and relatively early ...

MY attention has been directed to an article on “Early Man in N. Rhodesia”, by Prof. Raymond Dart, which appeared in the Times of Aug. 22 and was noticed in NATURE of Aug. 30. Echoes of the ...

The findings prove that early modern homo sapiens in eastern Africa were burying members of their group between 78,000 to 79,000 years ago — the earliest known finding of a human burial in Africa.

It was split into what is now the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas, resulting in a landmass that bridged Africa and Asia for the first time. According to the research team, the appearance of the ...

The remains of a long-lost society have been unearthed in Morocco, in a discovery that could rewrite the ancient history of North Africa. The settlement dates back more than 5,000 years and is ...

Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion.

These four lost cities were jewels of ancient Africa. What happened to them? Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their ...

A major Mediterranean power and a rival to Rome, this ancient capital is one to behold. Found in Africa, Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis and once held the ...