The world has many mysterious places, but underneath the earth's crust can be just as mysterious. Miles beneath the African ...

Deep beneath Africa, scientists say two colossal structures are hiding near the boundary between Earth’s mantle and core, and some researchers now argue that these buried giants may be relics of an ...

Ancient fossil structures imprinted on rocks that were once deep beneath the ocean suggest the search for the first life on Earth needs to be broadened. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The US has awarded a $400,000 grant to conserve Sungbo’s Eredo in Ogun State, one of Africa’s largest ancient man-made monuments.

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Fossils may look to the untrained eye like an unremarkable set of sandy bones. But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history – and South Africa is a fossil treasure ...