Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

How did the civilizations of North Africa connect with the rest of the continent in ancient and medieval times? This video explores the trans-Saharan trade routes, cultural exchanges, and powerful ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

A collection of medieval manuscripts from Timbuktu that academics hail as proof of an African scholarly tradition go on public show on the continent for the first time on Friday. Timbuktu in Mali, ...

Gold from West Africa was the engine that drove the movement of things, people, and ideas across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East in an interconnected medieval world. As the incredible works in ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...