Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...
Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found.
It is a question that sparks instant emotion: do people really eat dogs? For most of the world, the answer is a firm no but ...
An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon.
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
A 2-million-year-old protein sequence has revealed an unexpected twist in human ancestry, one scientists didn’t see coming.
The book Fading Footprints: In Search of South Africa’s First People begins with a death notice from 1913 – a woman called ...