The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Originating in the Horn of Africa and first cultivated in the Arabian Peninsula, coffee has been providing the world with refreshment for at least 500 years.

A new DNA study reveals that ancient Carthaginians had diverse ancestry and were not primarily descended from Phoenician ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of gladiators fighting large cats like lions and tigers in public games.

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

By Constance GBEDZOCorporate Governance and Enterprise DevelopmentHistory has indicated that the ancient civilisations mined ...