North African cities like Kairouan and Cairo became intellectual hubs, fostering advancements in mathematics, medicine, and astronomy. East African city-states (Kilwa, Mombasa, Zanzibar ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

An exhibition that tells the stories of African people who lived in the East End of London during the time of the ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering topics ranging ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new ...

Sudan has around 255 pyramids - more than twice as many as its neighbour - built by the ancient Kingdom of Kush, which once ruled over parts of both Sudan and Egypt. The pyramids are mostly ...

In both ancient and modern contexts ... But this method is still underutilized in Africa. It has only recently been taken up and very few visibility studies have been conducted on the continent.

but he never shied away from his Black roots Zachary Clary At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "In Slavery's Wake" tells the international history of slavery and Black ...