In an ever-changing world, where globalisation often threatens to overshadow local traditions and histories, World Heritage Day calls for a moment of reflection. It encourages us to ask: how can we ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

Taforalt cave, also called Grotte des Pigeons, is a globally important site. It contains the graves of over 30 ancient humans ...

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

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

The Sudan National Museum has been wrecked by two years of war, with most of its artifacts stolen. Authorities blame the ...

But some places on the continent are also politically unstable and violent, and tourists are well advised to avoid them. One ...

A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

The Fulani people are Africa's largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40  million Fulani people across ...

Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists have now discovered that some chose to remain ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...