In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

New archaeological evidence reveals the Maghreb as a significant center of human occupation during the Bronze Age.

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...

A new map has revealed the most common religion in every African country, showing a clear divide between Christianity and Islam across the world’s second largest continent. The map, shared on ...

A groundbreaking study using advanced radar technology has revealed a vast and intricate underground structure beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and ...

The Gion Shrine is found in the Yamashiro region of Japan. It is located immediately east of Kyoto, across the river from Nijo Palace.

His parents moved to Ivory Coast in the 1980s, towards the end of a period of exceptional economic growth that economists dubbed the “Ivorian miracle”. They came to work, drawn by the country ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

It has long been suggested that the material culture recovered from ancient archaeological contexts, consisting exclusively of stone artifacts provides an incomplete picture of human behavior in ...