Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...

An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient ...

We preview the artists that reflect Le Guess Who?’s “outernationalist” core, and the Utrecht festival’s mission to build ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

Deep in South Africa, a ring of ancient stones stands shrouded in mystery. Some claim it’s over 200,000 years old - the work ...

Emmanuel Item has tattooed hundreds of people with designs that draw deeply on his Nigerian heritage, connecting people in the diaspora with African culture.

The “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been chosen as Africa’s official home for one of China’s most significant cultural ...

African super grains are becoming increasingly popular for their nutritional benefits and versatility in plant-based cooking ...

Paleontologists have uncovered what they believe is the first-ever fossilized ‘butt-drag’ mark left by an animal.

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

Wadisuchus kassabi, an ancient crocodile from Egypt, shows crocodiles lived in the sea, offering insight into reptile ...