An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

Seated on sandbags in South Africa’s Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe ...

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.

Food is the lifeblood of New Orleans—and these Black chefs are at the forefront of the movement to level up mouthwatering ...

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 ...

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

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

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...