A woman stands behind a model of a Neanderthal at the Natural History Museum in London. Contrary to the narrative that early humans left Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, a new study finds our species ...

As the CEO of Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, I am compelled to address a matter of utmost importance: the pivotal role that early education plays in shaping the future of many African American ...

NEW YORK – Cheyney McKnight waited years to celebrate Pinkster. On a scorching Saturday morning in May, McKnight put on her tailor-made 18th-century Malian mud cloth dress and trekked 7 miles with a ...

Egyptian paleontologists have unearthed Wadisuchus kassabi, an 80-million-year-old fossil revealing Africa as the birthplace of seagoing crocodiles. T ...

In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early medieval cemeteries, and found two individuals that stood out. One was from Updown Eastry in Kent, known as Updown girl, and ...

Old Sarasota is rapidly disappearing. I try to envision what Sarasota must have been like in an earlier time, when my great-grandmother lived on Goodrich Avenue in a house that no longer exists. It’s ...

DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...

Baobabs are sometimes called "upside-down trees," because their branches look like roots reaching skyward. Of the eight ...

South Africa's youngest children are at risk of being left behind in early learning and nutrition, with millions unregistered ...