Researchers created an interactive map which lets users see how the ancient network crisscrossed the Empire, from Africa and ...

Stretching over 4,200 kilometers, the Niger River sustains millions of people across West Africa. Flowing through rainforest, ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans sought refuge from the elements in a rocky hollow near the crook of Africa’s western coast. They crafted stone tools, ate fresh kills or gathered plants, and ...

Four ancient youngsters, one pair from around 8,000 years ago and another from about 3,000 years ago, have opened a window on humankind’s far older, far-flung African origins. Analyses of the ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. A team of scientists, led ...

An international team led by Harvard Medical School scientists has produced the first genome-wide ancient human DNA sequences from west and central Africa. The data, recovered from four individuals ...

From a burial site in Cameroon, archaeologists recovered human genetic material dating as far back as 8,000 years. By Carl Zimmer In October 2015, scientists reconstructed the genome of a ...

The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago on April 4 announced that it will be renamed the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC), effective immediately ...