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Ancient genomes from Libya’s Takarkori shelter have provided new insights into the genetic history of the Green Sahara.
Zimbabwe is the house of stone, both literally and figuratively, with its very name derived from the ancient stone city of ...
Nestled in the heart of Footscray in Melbourne's inner-west sits a trove of African art, literature and history. Its founder ...
Sitting at a cultural crossroads between Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Marrakech has always been an incubator of ...
A fascinating new study suggests that ancient rock art in South Africa may depict a now-extinct species. According to research published in September 2024, the mysterious tusked animal in the artwork ...
Objects integral to daily African life —from snuff bowls ... on display include angler equipment, boat models, ancient buoys from Peru, and art that relates to the world of fishermen, fishing ...
Rooted in the island’s diverse cultural influences—from Arab and Persian to Indian and African—the hammam tradition in ...
Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's ...
What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...
created an uplift in land that contributed to closing the ancient Tethys Sea, splitting it into what is now the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas, and created a landmass that bridged Asia and Africa ...