Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

The museum's reopening serves as a symbolic display of stability ahead of planned elections in 2026, one expert told NBC News.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...