In some of the driest parts of southern Africa, rock faces hold quiet records of much older worlds. Marble and limestone ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to ...

How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

LUNGS BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN A contemporary play focuses on a young couple examining the scope of their lives together and the ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

Now in its fifth volume, the latest edition contains spoken and written works of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also ...

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...

I grew up with the idea that music and dance are just a part of social communications, what people do when they get together,” organizer Evie Ladin said about the art form.