Archaeologists have discovered some of the first-ever tools used on Earth at a site dubbed 'the cradle of humankind.' They found 3mn-year-old knives made from stones.

Africa is more than a continent,it's the cradle of human civilization, where the story of mankind first unfolded. In this ...

Deriving its name from the size of the bones first discovered in the 1990s, it is the most complete specimen of a human ancestor yet discovered, estimated to be between 1.5 and 3.7 million years old.

By Eleanor Momberg The Mogale City local municipality has launched an investigation into a series of spillages of human excrement in the Cradle of Humankind. Human waste has been spilling on to ...

The “Cradle of Humankind” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa that comprises a variety of fossil-bearing cave deposits, including at Sterkfontein Caves. Sterkfontein was made famous by the ...

Johannesburg - Two years, the Malapa Nature Reserve in the Cradle of Humankind brought us Australopithecus sediba – a previously undiscovered hominid species. Now, the same site has given ...