This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, the cavern was mined for a clay-based pigmentation mineral called ...

What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits ...

A new analysis of ancient footprints in South Africa suggests that humans may have been wearing hard-soled sandals. The ...

(AP video: Jeffrey Collins) A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American individual with a statue at the South Carolina Statehouse, is displayed Reconstruction Era National ...

Ancient Greek historian Herodotus described the city’s temple as the place where the hero Herakles first set foot in Egypt. In more recent years, Frank Goodio and his team from the European ...

A post shared to X on Oct. 2, 2024, (archived) included two photos allegedly showing the "massive ancient grave of the giants in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa." The image on the left appeared ...

“You see these everywhere — in Rome, in Africa, in Israel,” he said ... a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic ...

(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has asked Taiwan to move its unofficial embassy out of the administrative capital, Pretoria, in a move that’s seen as appeasing ...

It could be easy to overlook the dangers of tensions rising again in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s fixation on securing an outlet to the Red Sea, and his proven ...

Iconic cartoonist, Zapiro has teamed up with Pick n Pay Clothing for a collectors’ range of T-shirts celebrating the Springboks’ achievements on the field and their emergence as a force for unity in ...

Soaring high into the sky, paragliders are used to enjoying fascinating aerial views of some of the world’s most famous ancient landmarks. But the landmarks don’t usually have dogs hanging out ...