Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting South Africa.The Sterkfontein Caves yielded numerous fossil discoveries ...

adding fuel to the theory that humans and their ancestors originated in Africa. In 1999, UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage site, referring to it as the “undisputed Cradle of Humankind.” ...

a curator emeritus at South Africa’s Transvaal Museum, who began studying the caves in the 1950s. The first major discovery of a hominid from the Cradle came in 1924, when the anatomist Raymond ...

The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for palaeontologists since it was first discovered. "My aim is to find important bones here ...

KRUGERSDORP, South Africa — Seated on sandbags in South ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artifacts for paleontologists since it ...

Seated on sandbags in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for palaeontologists since it ...

Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves ... The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for ...