Welcome to Africa, the ancestral birthplace of all hominids including our own species, Homo sapiens. Every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry to here.
128,000 years ago
Homo sapiens makes stone tools in the Nile Valley of Egypt called Nubian Points. The same technology eventually travels to Arabia.
100,000 years ago
At Blombos Cave, South Africa, is evidence modern humans mixed powdered iron ore to create “paint”—perhaps for decorating their bodies.
