As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

From free school meals to decent work for adults, African officials are working to bring child labourers who dropped out of school due to COVID-19 back into the classroom to avoid a lost generation ...

Tulane University researchers, collaborating with an international team of scientists, have discovered why some parts of ...

Whether you’ve lived here your whole life, you’re just visiting, or maybe thinking of moving to St. Louis, you might be ...

Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

I’m protective, and I’m a father first before anything. And when I decided to coach, those players became my sons,” said the ...

SHAMVA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They ...

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...

At 92, Katrina Esau fights to preserve N|uu, South Africa’s ancient San language, endangered with her as its last first-language speaker. She started a school, wrote a book, and helped create a ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...