Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an archaeological dig has confirming the histories told and retold by griots.

Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

An exercise by the UN agency earlier this month simulated an outbreak of a “fictional” virus spreading across the world Read Full Article at ...

A recent study by Dr. Ignacio Montero-Ruiz and his colleagues examined the provenance of ancient copper artifacts discovered on the Island of Ibo off Mozambique's coast. The study, published in Azania ...

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

The discovery of long-lost treasures in a shipwreck has provided researchers with critical insights into European culture nearly 500 years ago.

MEDZHIBOZH, UKRAINE––The oldest evidence of ivory toolmaking was recently identified at the Paleolithic site of […] ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

This ancient metropolis was once a hub of economic and social activity, but mysteriously disappeared thousands of years ago.

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...