Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.

Rwanda’s formal system of honouring national heroes, which was introduced after the liberation struggle and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi draws from deep-rooted traditions of recognising courage ...

To Andre Neveling, the hippy vibe in Bali feels less like a genuine search for peace and more like an overdone tourist trend.

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

Collette announces its top travel trends, destinations, and experiences for 2026, following analysis of past and future bookings.

In Aflao, on the Ghana–Togo border, we joined a community football match as part of our Borderless Africa community activities, Ghanaians on one side, Togolese on the other We met several interesting ...

In an abandoned warehouse in Johannesburg, Prof Grace sets out her high-stakes plan - to break into museums and private collections and take back artefacts mostly plundered during colonial times. None ...

In a country where children should feel secure as they travel to school, too many families are faced with heartbreak instead.

A small, 2,200-year-old elephant bone discovered at an ancient, fortified settlement in southern Spain may be the first direct archaeological evidence of the war elephants used by the legendary ...

Public finance is where governance becomes real. It is easy for a society to proclaim authority. It is far harder to collect revenue without rebellion, issue currency without collapse, and sustain ...

The ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians alike sometimes name their newborns after festivals or even the day they were born, such as “Hb” (feast in ancient Egyptian), for which the modern equivalent ...