A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

Researchers excavated 22 white calcite crystals and fragments of ostrich eggshell, thought to have been used as water containers, from deposits dated to 105,000 years ago at Ga-Mohana Hill North ...

Even a seemingly modest site can provide important clues for reconstructing past environments and climates," the researchers ...

Anthropologists have found out that prehistoric migration from Africa, Asia and Europe to the Mediterranean islands took place long before the era of the Mediterranean seafaring civilizations. For ...

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Archeologists have unearthed the remains of a town from an influential but little-known ancient civilization in East Africa that sheds light on the origins of Christianity in Ethiopia. The buried ...

When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea called the Levant served as a critical ...