In 1981, a clay sculpture called the "Great Mother" was discovered in an ancient village in North Macedonia known as Tumba ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Police said the accused are local residents and that special teams are probing both rioting and alleged mobilisation through ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Oldest known African cremation dated to 9,500 years ago in MalawiEvidence of complex Stone Age hunter-gatherer mortuary ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed great importance to ritual funerals ...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows ...

Museums have spent decades trying to make the distant past feel alive. Audiovisual shows, touch screens and digital displays have helped, but they are often expensive to develop and hard to update ...

Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a century-old painting of Jesus Christ captured global headlines more than a decade ago, has died. She was 94. Officials in Borja, ...

Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk through a digital Neolithic village in Stone Age Europe and talk directly ...