So why, within its many hundreds of clauses, does the treaty refer to the decapitated head of an African anti-colonial hero? Chief Mkwawa's skull now sits on a plinth, protected by a glass box ...

Scientists found the first ever fossil remains, a partial skull from an Israeli cave that seemed to carry details of the journey that was undertaken by early humans to migrate out of Africa.

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The battle secured Rhodesia for the white men, blasted the last barrier to their march across Africa. In after years ... Lobengula from Queen Victoria. A skull and a few cracked bones were ...

The 'Dali skull' was found to be notably similar to what had once been the earliest known fossil of Homo sapiens, found 6,200 miles away in Morocco. Rather than pick a side in the 'out of Africa ...