The Senegambian stone circles stand as one of the most remarkable archaeological legacies in West Africa, spread across parts of present-day Senegal and The Gambia. These megalithic monuments offer ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...

Planes usually travel at between 35-40,000 feet through areas of sky with very minimal oxygen, which explains why all ...

The Nile, flowing north from East Africa ... ancient capital of Thebes, the temples of Luxor and Karnak, was built beside the river. On the west bank, where the sun died each evening, the Egyptians ...

In fact, many of the maps in our heads share the same errors, some of which are quite large—and surprisingly resistant to correction. Nelson’s father, who was a geography professor at Central ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included modern ... which allowed them to sketch out a map of the site, nearly 150 acres.