Unesco-listed fortified town in northwest Africa fights to preserve buildings and medieval books about science, astronomy and ...

A new exhibit at the Kelowna Art Gallery explores African history andlegend using Lego. Building Black Civilizations: Journey ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

After a four-year renovation, the Rockefeller Wing is open again with art from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania.

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...