Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival ... at the crossroads of inland African trade routes and caravan ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

Bordering Egypt, the African nation easily eclipses its neighbor ... the Sudanese pyramids were constructed by the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. Emerging as a major power in the eighth ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... 10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing ...

She gathers sacks of the hard-shelled fruit from the ancient trees and sells them on ... the latest devastating drought in ...

Night falls in the ancient city of Harar ... Full Ethiopian timeline One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history The city's fortified walls, built between the 13th and 16th Centuries, even ...