By digging carefully, archaeologists can connect information from aDNA to information about the social lives of these people.

Archaeological data shed light on the transition of ancient North African populations from hunter-gatherers to producers, between 20,000 and 4,000 years ago. Following the sequencing of a genome in ...

People express their best wishes for the new year by saying: "Aseggas Ameggaz" or "Yennayer Amrvouh (Happy New Year)". Yennayer is about living in harmony with nature despite its potential to create ...

Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...

Ancient Morocco endures side-by-side with its modern counterpart, so those who visit this exotic country in North Africa can witness remnants of life unchanged in thousands of years. I’m just back ...

Many modern histories tend to focus on ancient kingdoms and empires around the Mediterranean and in the Fertile Crescent. But Western versions of history tend to overlook the many significant kingdoms ...

Africa is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations—nations whose histories span thousands of years, built on foundations of resilience, innovation, and cultural depth. These civilizations have ...

The international study, published in Science, analyzed 87 complete genomes from both ancient and modern felines to map how cats spread geographically over millennia. The earliest domestic cat DNA in ...