The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...

Archaeologists pinpointed the location of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyaha which took place in what is now Iraq in 636 AD. The ...

Selina Denman charts the story of this part of East Africa--where African, Arab and European influences merge--as well as her own chapter in it.

As the magnitude of Johannesburg's water crisis becomes clear, water authorities are beginning to look at what it would take to use water from alternative sources, including Joburg's rivers. To gauge ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology.

OPINION: ‘On Cape Town’s map, there’s just one such spot in the Southern Suburbs, Westlake. Here, the City picks out an area ...

Scientists have unlocked the secrets of the world’s oldest map - a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi - which is believed to show the location of 'Noah’s Ark'. This ...

The 27-year-old has seven caps for Bafana Bafana but has fallen well out of favour for the national team after losing his place in matchday squads for Pirates. He’s yet to make an appearance in ...

Africa’s working-age population is growing faster than any other region, driven by progress in child survival over the last two decades. Yet, Sub-Saharan Africa invests less in education per capita ...

In 1998, 17,000-year-old skeletal remains of a 1 year old child ... Proof of First Trek from Africa to Australia “The DNA analysis also revealed that the baby harbored mutations in two genes ...