Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...

New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...

In parts of South Africa, especially near the town of Klerksdorp, miners have uncovered strange stone objects that look almost man-made. These objects are smoot ...

Funding: Agence National des Bourses du Gabon Institut de Recherche pour le Développement. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for. Two chacu hunting traps are seen from the air. The V-shaped hunting traps were used ...

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...

Any film with the name Yorgos Lanthimos attached to it means you’re in for one strange and outrageous head trip. Depending upon your sentiments regarding the filmmaker’s, ahem, unique canon (“The ...

The narrative of the current New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit “Dawoud Bey: Elegy” follows the movement of Africans into and out of American enslavement. In large-scale black-and-white landscape ...

South Africa’s agriculture minister signed a trade protocol with China to export five types of stone fruit to the Asian country for the first time. The agreement signed by John Steenhuisen and Sun ...