Maverick Life

Curious Kids: How was popcorn discovered?

By Sean Rafferty

Maverick Life

Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun – here’s how we know who lay inside

By Claire Isabella Gilmour

South Africa

Glimpses of Stone Age ‘workshops’ — archaeologists shed light on hunter-gatherer toolmaking

By Yves Vanderhaeghen

South Africa

Global citizen scientists dig it: unearthing SA’s paleo tourism

By Bridget Hilton-Barber

Maverick Life

African archaeology has neglected Namibia’s deserts, but scientists now know when an ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea

By Abi Stone and Dominic Stratford

Maverick Life

One million children praying the Rosary for Unity and Peace, and more from around the world

By Maverick Life Editors

Maverick Life

Fossil snake traces: another world-first find on South Africa’s Cape south coast

By Charles Helm

South Africa

Tracing lines to a pre-colonial past by uncovering Mpumalanga’s rock art

By Maru Attwood

Sci-Tech

Scientists discover burials, symbols by extinct species in Cradle of Humankind

By Elsabé Brits

South Africa

What killed Ballito Boy some 2,000 years ago, and why this is relevant today

By Yves Vanderhaeghen

Maverick Life

The long and satisfying 28,000-year history of the dildo

By Esmé Louise James

Magazine

Five things science has told us about the mummy of Tutankhamun

By Jenefer Metcalfe