Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe swept ancient soil into a blue dustpan, each ...

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.

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind ...

For two and a half years, the "Cradle of Humankind" has been closed. Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting ...

Photo: EcoSolutions. Long-term conservation efforts were celebrated in the Cradle of Humankind when two barn owls were successfully ringed from an owl box that has been in use for nearly a decade.

The iconic caves some 50km northwest of Johannesburg, is one Africa's largest collection of hominin fossils and was closed to the public in 2022 due to flooding that destroyed its entrance. Photo ...

The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for palaeontologists since it was first discovered. "My aim is to find important bones here ...