These city-states featured cosmopolitan cultures blending African, Arab, and Persian elements, forming the basis of Swahili civilization. Contributions from the Islamic World: Muḥammad ibn ...

Ancient African civilizations are unique in how they interacted with the world around them and the artifacts they left behind. The Nok people of modern-day Nigeria created sophisticated terracotta ...

He argued that these ancient civilizations were the ancestors to Europeans and the ones primarily responsible for contemporary western civilization—not people living in other parts of Africa and Asia.

Kush makes clear the role that black Africans played in an interconnected ancient world. Kush was “at the root of black African civilizations, and for a long time scholars and the general public ...

one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ... Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell 'Woody,' 'Spicy' and 'Sweet ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

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The study of ancient civilizations and their downfall offers ... controlling vast territories across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its collapse can be attributed to a multitude ...