Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

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

The museum's reopening serves as a symbolic display of stability ahead of planned elections in 2026, one expert told NBC News.

Dating from the 12th century, the Kasbah des Oudaias is not to be missed. Within its sturdy walls, botanical buffs will swoon ...

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

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...