Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

IPCC authors launched a program to get more academics from Africa involved; more than 700 have since attended talks and conferences that highlighted gaps in the IPCC’s African data, Sokona says.

We know from geneticists, anthropologists and historians that the Yoruba on my ancestral tree is ancient as is Mandenka (Mandingo), and Mbuti Pygmy is most ancient, the second most ancient human ...

These four lost cities were jewels of ancient Africa. What happened to them? Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their ...

The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ...

Africa's incredible ancient city that's over 2,000 years old and abandoned for 700 years Volubilis in Morocco is a breathtaking ancient Roman city frozen in time. By Aditi Rane.

Figure 2 | Sites with ancient-DNA samples from across Africa. Salem et al . 2 report the genomes of two ancient humans buried at the site of Takarkori in the Libyan Desert.

ontact: A’ndrea Elyse Messer [email protected] 814-865-9481 Penn State. University Park, Pa. — Remnants of organic matter in ancient soil more than 2.6 billion years old may be the earliest known ...

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 ...

Analysis - Some of Africa's dry areas face serious water shortages due to minimal rainfall. An ancient system of drawing water from aquifers, the "qanat system", could help. Gaathier ...