An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient ...

An international research team reports the analysis of new hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, ...

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

Tripoli's Red Castle museum has reopened for the first time since the 2011 uprising that toppled Moammar Gadhafi, unveiling a trove of treasures that span millennia, from ancient mummies to relics of ...

The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has long been a stage where football legends are made, and over the decades, several players and nations have etched their names into the tournament’s rich scoring ...

Junior King, whose real name is Dugulth Darian Denver Ferreira, passed away on December 11. He was inside a grey Volkswagen Polo TSI with his two kids, one other passenger, and the driver when it ...

As tensions simmer in Ghana’s conflict-prone Bawku area – a 740km drive from Accra – close to the volatile Burkina Faso border, a familiar figure has stepped forward once again: Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, ...