Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

A new paper on ancient DNA (aDNA) posits that every person on the planet is descended from hunter-gatherers in Africa. The study was published last month in the journal Nature. In the paper, authors ...

Many modern histories tend to focus on ancient kingdoms and empires around the Mediterranean and in the Fertile Crescent. But Western versions of history tend to overlook the many significant kingdoms ...