Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

“Benin is a good first destination for people visiting West Africa,” she adds. “It has a rich culture and history—it’s the ...

For a long time, people have spoken about lands that vanished from history. Some stories are so old that they feel like ...

For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte ...

Cereal grains form the nutritional foundation for billions of people worldwide. Together, wheat, maize and rice account for around 45% of all calories consumed. These grains are also indispensable as ...

Authoritarianism no longer arrives only with tanks and uniforms. In our generation, it often comes disguised as populism or ...

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Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...