An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

On a humid island at the edge of Asia, a single human hand pressed against stone has reached across 67,800 years to meet our ...

We often treat the past as distant. But the 18th-century Cape Colony also serves as an experiment for current-day economic historians in state capacity, market trust and inequality. Those themes ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

Many African conservation decisions such as funding, policy, species prioritization and nursery propagation implicitly treat ...

Africa’s 2026 digital boom is inevitable, but success belongs to those utilizing 'lite' cost strategies to maximize efficiency over flashiness. Rising costs in old hubs drive growth to efficient ...

For more than two decades, analysts, strategists, and dissident thinkers have argued that the post–Cold War international ...

New limits reflect sloppy reasoning and a desire for collective punishment.

A creative reset of modern African history, including a volume focused on the diaspora, has been released in three books to ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...