Authorities in Mali have arrested four senior employees of a Canadian mining company as the military regime in the West ...

The institutions of their government, and the increasing threats – be they climatic, military, economic or political – gave ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Women attend the Conference in Solidarity with the people of the Sahel in Niamey, Niger Wednesday, November 20, 2024 (AP ...

The simple fact is that Black Americans are not on the whole their descendants. They are the descendants of all of Africa, a ...

A former police chief in the Malian city of Timbuktu was found guilty of crimes against humanity, including torture, outrages ...

Nigeria's population is growing at one of the fastest rates globally, with a high birth rate of around 5.3 children per woman ...

This unique burial sheds light on ancient beliefs and practices, demonstrating how people of the past might have symbolically connected with earlier lives. The mystery of the five-person-skeleton ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii ... “It opens up different interpretations for who these people might have been.” Mittnik and her colleagues discovered that ...