T he United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 26 new sites to the World Heritage ...

Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African rainforests dated to around 18,000 years ago. Our newly published study pushes that date way back.

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

Humans Lived In African Rainforests 1,50,000 Years Ago: Study These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

The World Heritage Committee has removed three African heritage sites -- in Madagascar, Egypt and Libya -- from UNESCO's list ...

Find out why Kamba African Rainforest Experiences is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2024.

At the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, two other African sites are being removed from the List of World ...

Until now, though, the oldest firm evidence for people living in African rainforests dated to around 18,000 years ago. Our newly published study pushes that date way back.