When looking at forgotten civilizations that shaped history, we have to use the clues we have, and these ten left a few hints ...

Initially emphasis was placed on the ancient African empires and kingdoms and on the battles for independence. But since then, African historians have become more questioning about events in their ...

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 ...

Playwright Banna Desta has brought to life an often-overlooked ancient African civilisation in her latest work ... The ...

Andean Apocalypse - Disease--likely, smallpox or measles--had arrived in the Inca empire, and it was ruthless. Two of the (now dead) Emperor Huayna Capac's sons, Atahualpa and Huáscar, decided that a ...

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." ...