Across continents and cultures, one of the most striking features of ancient rock art is how often it places the natural ...

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 a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Gedi is another ...

Africa is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations—nations whose histories span thousands of years, built on foundations of resilience, innovation, and cultural depth. These civilizations have ...