Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

The Olduvai Gorge handaxe doesn't, of course, look anything like a modern axe - there's no handle and there's no metal blade. It's in fact a piece of grey-green volcanic rock, a very beautiful ...

"One particular school that sparked my interest was a paleoanthropological field school in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, a country in East Africa. The Gorge is the most famous fossil bearing site on the ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. A river cuts through several layers of strata with four distinct beds. Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old.

It is home to Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, and Serengeti National Park, as well as Olduvai Gorge, a rich archaeological site often called “the cradle of civilization.” However, Tanzania ...