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

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

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered the earliest known farming society from a previously unexplored period of northwestern Africa’s prehistory. A recent study published in the ...

Shining under the lights of Austin Public Library, panels of colorful beaded glass twist and flatten to reveal a patchwork of ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering topics ranging ...