A government program in Spain is training African migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages.

In an open field at the edge of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali, young models walk the runway clad in colorful traditional attires during a “caravan for peace” fashion event that organizers hope ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

Talented, cool, and always dressed to kill, the South African superstar embodies the sound—and look—of a new generation.

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

A 2017 astronaut photo shows the islands of Dek and Daga lurking in the murky, algae-infested waters of Ethiopia's Lake Tana.

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

Analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone supports the hypothesis that the earliest humans evolved from an ape-like ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Source: An ancient tradition helps girls in Zimbabwe fight child marriages | AP News In rural Zimbabwe, girls are reviving an ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...