They say "Kutambula Kulaba, Kudda Kunyumya"--to travel is to see, and to return is to tell the tale. Nowhere has this Ugandan proverb felt truer than on my first journey to Adjumani, a district tucked ...

New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...

Comfort food feels like home, warm and familiar, yet the stories behind America's beloved dishes tell tales of migration, adaptation, and cultural fusion spanning centuries. Most of what we consider ...

Explore Muizenberg, a vibrant coastal suburb on the edge of Cape Town’s False Bay, South Africa. Known for its colorful Victorian beach huts and welcoming surf, Muizenberg has long been considered the ...

There are few books that quietly rearrange the way one sees a landscape. Fading Footprints is one of them. The book Fading Footprints: In Search of South Africa's First People begins with a death ...

LOS CORTIJOS, Spain (AP) — The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland.

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Most plants get their coloration from pigments, but an endangered South African cycad gets its unique silvery-blue hue from wax crystals and an underlying chlorophyll-rich layer, according to a recent ...