An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African humid period more ...

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

In ancient times, Libya was the name by which North Africa was broadly known. And in the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament of the Bible, the area is the setting for the story of Noah’s Ark.

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Many tourists love learning about a new place, but some countries are currently dangerous and are on the US government's ...

Louis Hansel via Unsplash Much of what we know about the Bronze Age, a period between 2200 B.C and 800 B.C., is thanks to evidence left behind by ancient people in Europe. The era was ...