Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

A collection of medieval manuscripts from Timbuktu that academics hail as proof of an African scholarly tradition go on public show on the continent for the first time on Friday. Timbuktu in Mali, ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

Critiqued by Risham Majeed in Art bulletin (New York) 103 (1) March 2021, pages 140-146; reviewed by Ingrid Greenfield in African arts (Los Angeles) 53 (3) autumn 2020, pages 91-93 (N1.A258). AFA copy ...

DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...

Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. Archaeologists have long ...