This ancient city has a history that stretches back nearly three millennia and it was once the heart of a powerful ...

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 ...

The cemetery provides key clues about how the region transitioned into the great Ancient Egyptian civilization.

Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians ... Have you heard about the Agooji of West Africa, or Ardala, a ...

For decades, the most prominent homes for African art were within museums in Europe. That has changed, especially with the December opening of Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations ...

For many years now there has been a debate about whether the ancient ... from The African Origin of Civilisation. In his two major works Nations Negres et Culture and Anteriorite des Civilizations ...

This is where our history of Egypt begins, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where stone meets sky as a testament to one of the greatest civilizations on earth. Here, on the plateau of ...