The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

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

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

Archaeologists using laser technology have rediscovered an ancient ... Africa's commercial capital of Johannesburg. The settlement, which dates back to the 15th Century, was home to up to 10,000 ...

Archaeologists excavating the 2,200-year-old ruins of a gold mining village in Ghozza found two ... Archaeologists hope to find more traces of these ancient people and their living conditions ...