With artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential tool, San Diego State University researchers have discovered surprising similarities among ancient writing systems from Africa and the Caucasus region ...
Researchers decoded Teotihuacan symbols as an early Uto-Aztecan writing system, possibly linked to Nahuatl speakers and reshaping theories about the city’s people.
A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.
The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?
An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...
From ancient artefacts to Joan Mitchell and Mark Rothko, "Beyond the Abstract" is the most sweeping survey of abstract art ...
A king long dismissed as myth, often compared to an ancient African 'King Arthur,' has been confirmed as a real.
The Blemmyes haunted ancient maps and medieval manuscripts for two millennia, but the truth behind the legend is stranger ...
Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, structured, and geometrical in their thinking some 60,000 years ago, according to ...
By Henry Akubuiro Thirteen years after his death, legendary Nigerian writer, Professor Chinua Achebe, has continued to ...
Literary masterworks like Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea and Tolkien's The Hobbit are foundational efforts that have come to ...
Explore honey hunting in Africa, where greater honeyguides work with humans in a rare and vanishing wildlife partnership.