Africa’s history wasn’t shaped only by leaders, wars, or politics—geography played a brutal role. This video breaks down the ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

In the 1800s, segregated Dallas wouldn’t allow its Black residents to be buried next to their white neighbors, so the city was forced to find a final resting place for its formerly enslaved residents.

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

Thirty-five years ago, an LRSD elementary with a court-mandated 50/50 racial balance became one of the most sought-after schools in the state.

Two groundbreaking dinosaur track discoveries are changing the outdated image of the Jurassic period ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

So it is good news that Africa’s sleeping giants seem to be waking up. In South Africa prudent policies helped bring inflation down to 3.2% in 2025, lower than at any point in the past 21 years, and ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

The M23 rebel group still controls Goma, a year after taking the main city in eastern Congo. Life has returned to normal, but ...