Many experts believe they are descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans.

The extraordinary story of how a group of African Pygmies came to spend time on an East Yorkshire estate more than 100 years ago has been told by a county archive celebrating its 60th anniversary.

Flower gave a description of two skeletons of Akkas, lately obtained in the Monbuttu country, Central Africa, by Emin Pasha, and by him presented o the British Museum. Since this diminutive tribe ...