In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in Lake Tana, whose copper-tinted waters have been important geographically ...

When seemingly minor errors become a dismal pattern of incompetence and failure, an administration is sunk – but there is ...

Most of the world uses a 12-month calendar. But this country follows a much older system. Their year has 13 months. The first 12 months each have 30 days. The 13th month, called Pagume, is a special, ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

The notorious heist at the world-famous Louvre Museum and the downing of the World Trade Centre proved that there were flaws in the white man’s systems that the world hailed as perfect. When I visited ...

It was my mother who first mentioned ... uncertain. The people’s history has confidence in its detailed, grand, often fantastical stories. Straddling both traditions is the tale of the Queen of Sheba, ...

Hadush Kebatu, the migrant whose arrest for sexual assault sparked weeks of protests outside the Bell hotel in Epping where ...

The Tories criticised the payment to migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu as he was deported as a 'waste of taxpayers' money' ...

A boys accidental trip over a fossil in South Africa uncovers the human missing link, Australopithecus sediba. New 2025 study ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...