Two years ago, Yale archaeologist Veronica Waweru was in central Kenya, where she conducts her fieldwork, when she received a tip from a local contact. Tourists, she was told, were removing stone hand ...

Discover how the Maasai people in Kenya, facing devastating droughts and land degradation near Mount Kilimanjaro, are combating the impacts of climate change using traditional wisdom and innovative ...

Near grazing rhinos and blowing grasses, a patch of rocks jutted out of the Kenyan landscape. The rocky area seemed easy to overlook. But, as an archaeologist recently discovered, it was actually home ...

Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn't take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests. A team from the United States and ...

China and Kenya are joining hands in an archaeological excavation project. The excavation work held around the Kenyan town of Malindi, is aimed at revealing the prosperity of ancient Malindi, a port ...

Stone tools, 2.6 million to 3 million years old, discovered recently in Kenya, along with teeth belonging to the hominin Paranthropus and signs of the butchering of an ancient hippopotamus, pose ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind intersecting trackways alongside the ...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews University of Cambridge Professor Robert Foley, co-author of a study in Nature about remains of a massacre from 10,000 years ago in Kenya. He talks about why he believes ...

Kenya’s arid, gullied Lothagam Valley is a throwback to a very distant past. Now, the region is the site of a discovery that has the potential to change how the world views ancient societies and the ...

The teeth of a new fossil monkey, unearthed in the badlands of northwest Kenya, help fill a 6-million-year void in Old World monkey evolution, according to a new study. The teeth of a new fossil ...