New research challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...

The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created the conditions and ingredients that made our existence possible, it was only a series of unlikely events that ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

Recent discoveries in archaeology have unveiled a previously unknown civilization that could fundamentally alter our understanding of human history. This civilization’s unique characteristics and ...

IT is very satisfactory to see that Dr. Wingfield-Stratford's work, reviewed in NATURE of June 8, 1929, p. 863, has already reached a second edition in one volume. The price of the first edition in ...

Throughout the centuries, certain civilizations have illuminated the world with their genius. Throughout the centuries, certain civilizations have illuminated the world with their genius. They have ...