In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

The recent analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone in Ethiopia showed that the ancient species Ardipithecus ramidus may ...

Sedimentary rocks have unveiled a fascinating chapter in Earth’s geological history, revealing ancient ocean floor cooling.

The University of South Africa, Unisa, made history with the inaugural Unisa African Music Festival hosted on 26 and 27 September 2025 at its Muckleneuk Campus in Pretoria. The two-day event brought ...

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The Princeton University Art Museum opens its David Adjaye-designed building, measuring some 146,000 square feet, on October ...

AUTUMN has finally arrived and it’s the perfect time to escape Ireland’s uncertain and miserable weather for a sunshine destination in Europe and beyond. As the busy travel season ...