West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire ... subjective judgement to create reliable maps and the need to spend money prospecting ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

An archaeological discovery in West Africa reveals that humans lived in tropical forests ... It also raises questions about how these environments influenced the evolution of our species. a) Map of ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to ...

This year St. Patrick’s Day was on a Monday, a particularly cursed fate for a holiday associated with merriment. I propose extending the celebration all throughout the week — a feat of endurance that ...

Other inscriptions say things like “here is where scorpions are born” or this inscription over a largely empty Africa, “it is ...

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free pi day pie potluck, comedy against cancer, Mobius performance art called “Slay,” Ukrainian folk-rock, a St. Patrick’s fun ...

This led to another climatic change towards a more arid environment leading to the drying up of the ancient marshes and in turn ... spend winter periods here during their west Eurasia-Caspian-Nile and ...

On July 1, 1905, and for a month, the Magasin d’Education et de Récréation serialized a novel by Jules Verne titled ...