About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

Colonizing Indigenous people—and exploiting their land and resources—has a long and brutal history.

You know the continent—but where did its name come from? From Roman generals to ancient tribes, the roots of “Africa” stretch ...

Ancient Africa's Climate Was Unexpectedly Rainy, Muddying the Story of Early Humans Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago—a pivotal period in Earth's ...

Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

The Kgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre has officially opened, allowing visitors to explore the continent’s ancient history where dinosaur embryos were discovered.

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the earliest known hominids appear in the fossil record.

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...