Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation ... Cheikh Anta Diop argues that: As humankind began in East Africa it was likely that people were black skinned. People populated other continents by ...

As an Africanist archaeologist, I specialize in the study of ancient societies across Mediterranean Africa and the Sahara ...

By looking at ancient DNA discovered in Africa, the team was able to determine several things. First, people changed how they moved and interacted around the time of the Later Stone Age transition.

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered the earliest known farming society from a previously unexplored period of ...

Ancient Egyptians were especially devoted ... has been used by the Khoi and San people of South Africa for skin care for ages. You might want to know that the Khoisan are known for their smooth ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

In both ancient and modern contexts, visibility plays a key role in how people position themselves ... But this method is still underutilized in Africa. It has only recently been taken up and ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...