It was split into what is now the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas, resulting in a landmass that bridged Africa and Asia for the first time. According to the research team, the appearance of the ...

There's much more to ancient Africa than Egypt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Many modern histories tend to focus on ...

The new name better represents the breadth and depth of the diversity of our work as we continue to generate and showcase field-defining research and scholarship.” Founded in 1919 as UChicago’s first ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent ...

Africa’s centrality to the human story means that it is especially important for its proportion to grow, says Reich, who was part of a team that published the largest-yet ancient-genome study ...

In ancient Egypt, did pyramids really have booby traps? Why was treasure hidden inside? - Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand.When the ancient Egyptians built their giant pyramids, they wanted to ...

Previous research on genomic data shows ancient humans most likely left Africa and spread across the planet between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. However, we still don’t know much about genetic ...

A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from Morocco in northwest Africa revealed that food production was introduced by Neolithic European and Levantine migrants and then adopted by local groups.

Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...