Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest.

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at ...

Visibility has always been important in people’s decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent ...

Archaeologists discovered roughly 345 standing stone circles in Saudi Arabia using aerial surveys. Experts believe the 7,000-year-old structures were once houses, complete with doorways and roofs. The ...

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

The recent discovery of 476,000-year-old wooden logs at Kalambo Falls in Zambia is revolutionizing our understanding of early human technology. These ancient ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first ...