Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.
The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.
DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...
10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King of Ghana The ...
to the creation of a negative portrayal of Africa. "It's not really our history from our point of view. It might be African history from an European point of view." Dr Wosene Yefru, Tennessee ...
Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...
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 ...
The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...