Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

This special report focuses on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commendations for the Indian women's cricket team and ISRO. The ...

A 2-million-year-old protein sequence has revealed an unexpected twist in human ancestry, one scientists didn’t see coming.

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

The book Fading Footprints: In Search of South Africa’s First People begins with a death notice from 1913 – a woman called ...