Ancient stellae from the old kingdom can be ... He said in 1965: "Perhaps, in the future, there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none, or very little: there is ...

This 1935 map of Africa is more than just a historical artifact—it’s a window into the past. As we unroll its fragile pages, ...

The history of Africa has tended to rely on written ... Initially emphasis was placed on the ancient African empires and kingdoms and on the battles for independence. But since then, African ...

Burials at Mount Hora in Malawi yielded DNA used in the study DNA from ancient remains has been used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa. Researchers sequenced the ...

Researchers from Khalifa University, Saudi Arabia, working with regional and international collaborators, have examined ...

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society ... including the remains of "Lucy ...

In 2010, he received his PhD in Egyptology and came to William & Mary to teach and research the ancient, medieval, and modern histories of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the history of ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King ...

In 2010, he received his PhD in Egyptology and came to William & Mary to teach and research the ancient, medieval, and modern histories of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the history of ...