Across South Africa’s hospitality landscape, chefs, mixologists, and wellness curators are increasingly turning to African superfoods: indigenous botanicals that combine nutritional power, cultural ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The San hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa are among the most prolific rock artists on the planet, having produced huge ...

A recent Vatican document on marriage revives troubling assumptions about Africa and polygamy. Sr. Leonida Katunge asks: Why ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

In a world marked by globalization and cultural standardization, some people continue to preserve a strong and ancient spirituality. Bangkok, the capital ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric times.

Archaeologists studying burned bone fragments in northern Malawi have identified what is now considered the oldest known cremation pyre in Africa, offering a rare glimpse into the funerary practices ...

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson has documented something archaeologists have long struggled to find in ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine capable of roaming Earth during its remote geological past, perhaps even going ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Sudan desert burial site contained two clay vessels, one with the remains of a campfire. The campfire was probably part of a ...

A Sudan desert burial site contained two clay vessels, one with the remains of a campfire. The campfire was probably part of a funeral ritual, and the remains—which likely held the scraps of a funeral ...