Curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden recently invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the ...

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that ...

But they had a distinctly different language, ethnicity and culture, including their own system of writing. The Kingdom of Kush developed from the Kerma culture, which had occupied Nubia from ...

3D illustration of a method of DNA sequencing. Researchers successfully mapped the genetic code of 13 ancient humans in South Africa, dating back between 1,300 and 10,000 years. ktsimage/Getty ...

A new language has been discovered in a UNESCO World Heritage Site being excavated in northern Turkey, according to a news release from the University of Würzburg. The area being excavated is ...

These researchers have a plan to fix that. Over 2,000 languages originate in Africa, but natural language processing programs support very few of them. Andrew Paul Aug 11, 2023 11:00 AM EDT ...