Pretoria - Like the Mona Lisa, she has a strange allure; the almost sad eyes looking at you across 2.15 million years. A life-like bust, reconstructed from the most complete skull of an ...

The discovery of Mrs Ples (or Sts 5 as it is known scientifically) by Dr Robert Broom in 1947 at the Sterkfontein Caves. On 10 December Maropeng will reveal its latest exhibition entitled, Mrs Ples ...

Like the Mona Lisa, she has a strange allure; the almost sad eyes looking at you across 2,15-million years. A lifelike bust, reconstructed from the most complete skull yet discovered of an ...

"This is the first time that Mrs Ples will be returning to Maropeng since the centre's opening eight years ago," said Tony Rubin, MD of Maropeng. And this time a selection of other very important ...

PARIS: The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their East African relatives ...

To play this media please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 media It has been 68 years since the world famous Mrs Ples ...

Rian Malan, the South African journalist and author, once made a spiky defence of Johannesburg in a British newspaper. “Foreigners think we are nuts, coming back to a doomed city on a damned continent ...

Fossilised remains belonging to some of humanity's oldest ancestors are far older than scientists had originally thought, new research says. The fossils, including one belonging to ancient cave woman ...

Maropeng will reveal its latest exhibition entitled, 'Mrs Ples' and friends – a selection of hominin fossils from the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, on December 10. "This is the first time ...