We know what the oldest civilizations in the world are thanks to archaeology, but there are many others we are only just ...

Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence ...

Today, the Asante people still remember their ancient traditions. They hold special ceremonies called durbars. This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly ...

Though smaller in scale than Britain, Spain and other European colonial empires, Sweden had several colonies around the world ...

Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences ... meaning "the East," in contrast to the African part of the Arab world, known as al-Maghrib, meaning "the West." ...