Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... The route taken by traders of the Maghreb to Ghana would have started in North Africa in Tahert, sweeping down through Sijilimasa in Southern ...

Those living in this ancient capital enjoyed immense wealth thanks to Carthage’s exploitation of the silver mines of North Africa and southern Spain. According to UNESCO: “From the 6th century ...

In a nutshell A spotted hyena was documented in Egypt’s Elba Protected Area in February 2024 – the first confirmed sighting ...

Africa’s Stone Age was also a Bone Age. Ancient Africans took bone tools to a new level around 90,000 years ago by making pointed knives out of animals’ ribs, scientists say. Before then ...

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Burials at Mount Hora in Malawi yielded DNA used in the study DNA from ancient remains has been used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa. Researchers sequenced the ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece ... study of early civilizations in Western Asia and North ...