Charleston's International African American Museum wrapped its second year with 150,000 visitors, new programs and a $200,000 ...

For centuries, the small Greek island of Kasos served as a hub for international trade, welcoming ships from around the world ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today's world.In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres tall covered much of Europe, Asia and ...

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

The latter, of course, is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site which, together with the fishing village of Shela, had a resurgence during ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in Western Europe made tools from the bones of whales that had been stranded along the Atlantic coast.

Radiocarbon dating (which determines the age of organic materials) revealed that the oldest bones in the collection date back to around 19,000 to 20,000 years ago, “making it the oldest evidence ...

Prehistoric stone tool cores on display from the cave – credit, Sara Watson SWNS In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of Africa, thousands of stone tools made by early humans ...

Archaeology breakthrough as 20,000-year-old tools reveal 'important ... found on the southern coast of South Africa, ... between prehistoric people between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago. ...