Escape the crowds and sleep near South Africa’s most important Stone Age heritage sites—Makapansgat, Diepkloof, and Pinnacle ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

The ancient hominin fossils were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves, 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, that form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Cradle of Humankind.