The city’s new Caribbean Heritage Museum, with touchscreens playing neighborhood stories, walls displaying decades of ...

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

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Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

When Stanley entered Africa, parts of the map were still labeled “unknown.” What he found would change history — but at what cost? This is not just the story of a daring explorer, but a man who helped ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

West Africa stands at a critical moment—fragile, fast-moving, and unforgiving. Despite years of regional diplomacy, the Economic Community of West ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

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Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...