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

Trash tells truth: Refuse from African sites shows unpolished details of daily life, from food scraps to tools, that grand monuments do not capture. New archaeological finds: A 2,400-year-old ...

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 ...

Animals maintain complex cultures, communication systems, infrastructure, and intergenerational knowledge, writes Ryan Huling ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

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 small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in Sudan’s past.

The South Asian summer monsoon sustains billions of people today. For a long time, the prevailing scientific view has held that the formation and intensification of the South Asian summer monsoon were ...

In Ancient Egypt, long and decorated nails were worn by elites as a symbol of beauty, power, and social status, showing they didn’t engage in manual labour. Over time, this idea of elongated, dramatic ...

The circular mass graves were filled with the bones of people and animals, often carefully arranged around a key person at ...