A team of researchers has mapped predicted bioavailable strontium isotope ratios across all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Archaeologists, conservation scientists, and forensics experts will now be able to ...

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million ...

The exhibition also covers more recent and painful chapters of African history: "You know, archaeology is a colonial discipline," points out Wazi Apoh, who has been leading extensive ...

Discoveries at an 8.7 million-year-old site could shake up the whole way science traditionally sees the birthplace of mankind ...

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

"Dahomey" filmmaker Mati Diop explains how she gives stolen African artifacts a voice in her "fantasy documentary" film.

Egypt is the best-represented African country in the university's ... Research found that only 1% of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's estimated 137,000 artefacts are on display.

An estimated 350,000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found in a university's collections. Dr Eva Namusoke spent 15 ...

Cambridge University has uncovered over 350,000 African artifacts, manuscripts, and specimens in its archives, many tied to British colonialism. The discovery, led by Dr. Eva Namusoke, revealed ...

Africa is where we all come from: A new exhibition revisits the continent's contributions to humanity's evolution and culture and looks into the insights provided by archaeology. https://p.dw.com ...