A fascinating new study suggests that ancient rock art in South Africa may depict a now-extinct species. According to research published in September 2024, the mysterious tusked animal in the artwork ...

Who stole your motorcycle? Who has bewitched the kids? Spiders and crabs are still used to decode the past and read the ...

South Africa is a haven for mindful escapes ... Spend your days wandering through misty trails, journaling beside a crackling fire, or reading under ancient trees. Don’t miss the local bath-time ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

Ancient humans living about 15,000 years ago ... that were recently discovered in one of the African continent’s oldest cemeteries hint that these avians were culturally significant at the ...

Credit: Heritage Conservation Jerusalem Pikiwiki Israel Through the use of advanced digital techniques such as multispectral photography and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), the research team ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to engage with live scientific research. Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep ...

The African continent is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent. Many of the world’s most significant ancient historical sites are found here. And despite being the hottest ...

The 1-54 fair, which was founded in 2013, with three editions per year—in London, New York and Marrakech—is probably the best-known fair dedicated to African art. The fair’s name refers to ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included modern-day Guinea-Bissau. The stories of its royalty and reign have been told for ...

Curators and museum officials collaborated with the men who made the spectacular masquerades. "We thought, ‘Let's work with ...