In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...

At 92, Katrina Esau fights to preserve N|uu, South Africa’s ancient San language, endangered with her as its last ...

Apparently everything can be traced back to the motherland. Many users on social media recently began resharing a 2011 study conducted by a group of scientists which says the world’s 6,000 modern ...

It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta stone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ancient societies had written ...

The Stone Age refers to a time in the distant past. It started around 3 million years ago and lasted until about 40,000 years ago. The Stone Age began when several species of apes started to make ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

Chapurukha M. Kusimba received funding for this research from the Field Museum of Natural History, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...