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

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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 Nok civilization flourished in what is now Nigeria, pioneering iron smelting in ancient Africa. Their sophisticated terra-cotta sculptures, found throughout their territory, demonstrate ...

It’s amazing, isn’t it? Our blue planet. The only planet in the solar system that’s surface is covered in liquid water. But less than that 1% of it that is freshwater. Drain the salt-water ...

Though Breasted moved the marker from Europe to Western Asia and North Africa, he was selective in the areas he chose to study. He wrote that the cultures who lived in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome ... research center dedicated to the study of early ...

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation ... Negres et Culture and Anteriorite des Civilizations Negres he profoundly influenced thinking about Africa around the world. Cheikh Anta Diop argues ...

Read about the Ra II papyrus boat expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl in 1970, uncovering ancient maritime routes between Africa ...