The world has many mysterious places, but underneath the earth's crust can be just as mysterious. Miles beneath the African ...

Deep beneath Africa, scientists say two colossal structures are hiding near the boundary between Earth’s mantle and core, and some researchers now argue that these buried giants may be relics of an ...

Ancient fossil structures imprinted on rocks that were once deep beneath the ocean suggest the search for the first life on ...

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 ...

The US has awarded a $400,000 grant to conserve Sungbo’s Eredo in Ogun State, one of Africa’s largest ancient man-made monuments.

From the Andes to the Nile, explore ancient civilisations that remain accessible to travellers, with a focus on heritage and ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Fossils may look to the untrained eye like an unremarkable set of sandy bones. But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history – and South Africa is a fossil treasure ...