Even before the United States was an independent nation, its first museums were opening its doors — and they've been growing ...

Forget the old image of humans marching out from the savannah. A coastal origin story from the southern Cape places women, ...

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...

The 2026 Ulysses and Marguerite Memorial Schwartz Lecture drew an overflowing crowd of students on April 21 to hear from ...

New genetic and archaeological evidence is reshaping the long-standing narrative of the Neolithic Revolution in North Africa.

To focus solely on the physical distance separating China and Africa is to overlook the profound philosophical and social ...

Legal protections are failing to protect girls in Africa from child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), report ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

The Royal African Society ( is pleased to announce the co-option of four distinguished leaders to its Council: Ifrah Hassan ...

Archaeologists have identified the earliest sustained human occupation in Highland Southern Africa, and suggest it could not ...

Pope Leo XIV concluded his first trip to Africa April 23, capping a four-country visit marked by urgent calls for peace, ...

New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa ...