Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

For the first time ever, Henry Lovejoy, a CU Boulder history professor, has mapped the boundaries of a fallen African kingdom best known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. During its reign, the ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

George Busby receives funding from Wellcome, the Medical Research Council, Oxford University and The Royal Geographical Society. One of the more startling discoveries arising from genomic sequencing ...

Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their fortunes waned over time. Although their ancient splendors disappeared from sight, ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans sought refuge from the elements in a rocky hollow near the crook of Africa’s western coast. They crafted stone tools, ate fresh kills or gathered plants, and ...

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 ...