Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

(CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert was a far lusher, ...

Deep in the arid expanses of West Texas, a surprising discovery offers a rare snapshot of survival thousands of years ago. Researchers excavating a rock shelter near present-day Marfa uncovered a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what they describe as the world’s oldest known cremation of an adult at a site in northern Malawi, offering new insights into ancient burial traditions in Africa. The ...