DNA reveals the unique story of a man buried in Menga whose roots lie in Iberia, Africa, and the Mediterranean a thousand ...

Heritage Daily reports on how Archaeologists from the Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța (MINAC) carried out preventive excavations at a municipal hospital site, an area legally ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

Walter Pison You know that feeling when you’re watching a Hallmark Christmas movie and thinking, “There’s no way a town ...

The discovery of a 2,400-year-old metalworking workshop in Senegal provides new insights into the history of iron production ...

In a study published in The Anatomical Record, researchers have identified a new species of large-bodied gorgonopsian from the middle Permian. The discovery pushed back the known origins of when these ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been selected as one of only four universities worldwide and the only one in Africa to serve as a repository for the Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese ...

An archaeology team carry out field work in Old Dongola, in Sudan, which was once the capital of the Christian kingdom of Makuria (Picture: M. Rekłajtis/PCMA/Cover Media) An Arabic text found on a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...