Africa’s historic buildings and monuments account for less than 10% of the UNESCO World Heritage List. But they are ...

Chinese lenders have invested billions in African agriculture. But new research shows the money often misses what’s needed to ...

Ancient DNA was thought to be almost impossible to preserve in sub-Saharan Africa due to heat and humidity. Yet a 50,000-year ...

Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic ...

General & CEO, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) We carry within us the origin of everything. That is not rhetoric ...

Rather than shying away from technology, female rangers across the continent are combining it with local knowledge to help both wildlife and communities thrive. Holly Budge meets five women who are wo ...

"We can begin to reconstruct not only how tools were made, but also how technological knowledge moved between regions and how it changed along the way,” said Dr. Gadi Herzlinger ...

The founder of the Africa Technology Expo (AT), Nnaemeka Clinton, has called for greater collaboration among African businesses and governments, saying the continent must become more integrated to ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the chamber was reserved just for females, it could imply a level of complex and ...

Hidden beneath the scorched expanse of the central Libyan Sahara lies a prehistoric graveyard that was once a lush, green gateway to a continent. For decades, the origin of Africa's higher primates ...

People have died or gone mad on the icy continent, but artists, scientists and filmmakers keep going back. A new exhibition ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. The great out-of-Africa migration is one of the canonical ...