For decades, the perception of ancient humans primarily associated them with stone tools and implements. However, recent discoveries at Kalambo Falls, Zambia, suggest that this longstanding narrative requires significant revision.…
Sudan’s rich cultural heritage is under severe threat as mass looting and illicit trafficking of artefacts escalate during the country’s ongoing civil war. The trafficking of Sudanese artefacts has raised…
An international team of researchers has uncovered an enigmatic rock-cut architectural site at Teniky, located in the remote Isalo Massif in southern Madagascar. This discovery is unparalleled as no similar…
In 1974, in the remote badlands of Hadar, Ethiopia, an American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and a graduate student, Tom Gray made a groundbreaking discovery: the fossilized remains of an early…
Researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington using radar satellite imagery found a major extinct branch of the Nile. The extinct branch of the river flowed through the foothills…
France and Germany have launched a €2.1 million fund to finance research over three years whether African artefacts in French and German national museums were justly obtained. This may conclude…
The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum have announced a long-term agreement to loan gold and silver treasures taken from West Africa by the British army during colonial…