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

This week I moderated a conversation about the three great West African empires of the medieval period between 1100-1500 AD: ...

In some of the driest parts of southern Africa, rock faces hold quiet records of much older worlds. Marble and limestone ...

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 Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

A hot air ballon flys over the assembly of two giant alabaster statues for Pharoah Amenhotep III, in the southern city of ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

At Latitude 0 Hotel, photographer Shem Compion unveiled The Rift: Scar of Africa, a monumental coffee-table book that carries ...

Caves are such a unique way to explore a new place. Getting to see beyond the surface level and learn more about the history ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...