Europe is bursting with islands (the Mediterranean is said to have over 10,000 alone), so we're spoilt for choice.

Europe is bursting with islands (the Mediterranean is said to have over 10,000 alone), so we're spoilt for choice.

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

As these informal settlements grew over the years, their names – and the names of places within them – have grown to ...

Across the continent, thousands of Fulani people are holding fast to their ancient customs—while reshaping their traditions ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now an Iraqi, ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?