The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

The mystery of what happened to the Roanoke settlers has plagued researchers for hundreds of years, however, the John White ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

In 1983, archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...

While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen's ...

The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men ...

Namibia’s first maritime museum, the NMM, stands as one of Africa's largest. Located in the historic Lüderitz Old Power ...

The Matric Class of 2024 has achieved an overall pass rate of 87.3%, making it the highest matric pass rate in the history of South Africa. “I am proud to announce that in 2024, 615 429 learners ...

After the tweet spread, others began using the same map of South America as surreal punchlines to jokes. User @GRAVEMINDS posted a joke that gained over 30 retweets and 130 likes (shown below, left).

He put Southern California’s dryness into perspective using charts and maps. In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for ...