South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

Shifting to another region of Africa, archaeological work at early urban settlements in central and southern Ghana identified ...

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

Researchers say the findings will illuminate the history of "the least widely known and understood [burial rituals] in the ...