On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

After six years of investigation, archaeologists have discovered a large-scale ancient city cluster consisting of 573 stone ...

Installation view, Omar Ba, “Clin d’œil : à Cheikh Anta Diop - Un continent à la recherche de son histoire” (2017), oil, pencil, acrylic, ink, and gouache on corrugated card, 129 4/5 x 282 1/2 x 15 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For the first time in the game’s 30-year history, leaders and civilizations can be chosen independently of one ...

New research challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from... Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the ...