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

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Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

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Nigeria tops the list as Africa’s most culturally diverse nation, with more than 370 tribes. The Hausa-Fulani dominate the north, the Yoruba are prominent in the southwest, and the Igbo hold sway in ...

A self-styled "African tribe" is defying an eviction notice from the local council, remaining camped in woodland in the Scottish Borders. The group, known as the "Kingdom of Kubala," was ordered to ...

The Trump administration ordered a famous Civil War-era war image removed from a National Park Service site in Georgia as it moves to promote what it considers a more positive view of American history ...