Coffee is a daily source of energy for many people, but someone had to be the first to try it out. An ancient legend about a goatherder could hold the truth.

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old civilization in the desert using a combination of AI and advanced imaging technology ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...

Through these painstaking efforts, the research painted a picture of Engaji Nanyori as a dry, semi-desert environment, with little water and few plants. But the landscape hadn’t always been that ...

However, a new study indicates that hominins may have adapted to desert life much earlier than previously thought. Ancient Desert Dwellers Findings published by an international research team in ...

Homo erectus adapted to desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, utilizing behavioral strategies such as repeatedly accessing freshwater sources and developing specialized stone tools.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees ... near Earth was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.