Explore 100 Ancient Myths, Facts, and Finds That Defy Explanation. Uncover baffling artifacts, impossible structures, and ...

Harar, one of the most ancient and spiritually celebrated cities in the Horn of Africa, lies approximately 517 kilometers east of Addis Ababa and about 280 ...

Food influenced nearly every aspect of ancient civilization, from where people settled to how economies developed and political systems expanded over time. Long before refrigeration or modern ...

Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France's HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of ...

Eastern Africa's earliest livestock herders continued fishing, hunting and gathering for centuries after livestock were first ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan. This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and painstakingly ...

The Sahara’s 3.6 million square miles (9.2 million square kilometers) of scorching sand actually comprise several deserts ...

Equinix faces challenge to Cape Town data centres over environmental concerns A plan by U.S.-listed Equinix to build two data centres in Cape Town should not be approved without full disclosure of its ...

When the earliest humans began to migrate out of Africa, it didn’t take long before they ran into an ocean. Or a sea. Or a lake. Or a river — most of our planet’s surface is water, after all. For ...