The project, which is funded by the International Continental Scientific Drilling programme, allowed the researchers to ...

Sifting through the ruins of an ancient city along the coast of northern Africa, archaeologists uncovered a unique home. Fragments of its “advanced” features survived, despite earthquake damage.

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

“But then looking at the overall scope of history— it truly starts all the way back in Africa.” During the first unit of the course, students will engage material about ancient African ...

A century later, Julius Caesar ordered the castle to be rebuilt with ancient materials. The ruins of an underground Byzantine cistern testify today to the later rule of the Byzantines in the castle, ...

The Apartheid Museum is the place to be for a chance to learn more about South Africa’s darkest era. You will be able to view a number of exhibits, including text panels, film footage and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the ...

Playwright Banna Desta has brought to life an often-overlooked ancient African civilisation in her latest work - a compelling audio drama about an increasingly tyrannical queen and her scheming ...

Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture.

Their family relocated to Ghana from Florida and have obtained Ghanaian citizenship. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu) African books sit on the bookshelf at the Keachia Bowers and Damon Smith’s family home in ...

Ivory Coast is the sixth in a growing list of African nations cutting military ties with former colonial power France. France's President Emmanuel Macron greets Ivory Coast's President Alassane ...