We know that tens of thousands of years ago, humans migrated out of Africa — but the question is, when, and how many times? By sequencing the genomes of nearly 800 people from more than 270 population ...

DNA from a man who lived about 4,500 years ago in what’s now Ethiopia has illuminated a surprisingly influential migration of Eurasians into Africa 1,500 years after his death. That back-to-Africa ...

Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have sunk an Egyptian city. Not long after humankind’s emergence in Africa, Homo ...

This is believed to be the first map of Africa, as a continent. “Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya. The Arabs later adopted a ...

No paper or digital trails document ancient humans’ journey out of Africa to points around the globe. Fortunately, those intrepid travelers left a DNA trail. Genetic studies released in 2016 put a new ...

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...

A team of international researchers, which includes a Saint Louis University Madrid anthropologist, dug deep to find some of the oldest African DNA on record, in a new study published in Nature.

Archeologists and scholars are learning more about Africa than ever before, from the digitization of records and the unearthing of ancient treasures. Audie Cornish talks with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of ...

Although vipers are famous for their venomous bites, it turns out these snakes have another story to tell. Abigail Eisenstadt The neotropical rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus, inhabits at least 11 South ...

Millions of years ago, Africa's savannas were covered with thick, ancient forests, which disappeared and turned into the grassy ecosystems that they are today. Almost a fifth of the world's land ...

A new Google Map-alike software is now trending in social media, and everyone's using it to find their addresses. Compared to the standard Google Map, this new 'Ancient Map' shows your country's ...