Wole Soyinka and Late President Kwame Nkruma of Ghana In Harmattan Haze on an African Spring, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka condemns the notion that any of the major civilizations occurred in a vac­uum.

CIA declassified a book titled The Adam and Eve Story, revealing Chan Thomas's controversial theories on ancient cataclysms.

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

“But then looking at the overall scope of history— it truly starts all the way back in Africa.” During the first unit of the course, students will engage material about ancient African ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru ...

Many African stars have achieved international and club success, making a significant impact on the global football stage. Modern African players like Mohamed Salah and Samuel Eto'o have left a ...

They were the cradle of one of the world’s earliest civilizations: Mesopotamia. Today, the Tigris and Euphrates are still cultural symbols of ancient human ingenuity, with archaeological sites ...

The ancient Greeks were in some ways the most ... but toward its own local, African civilization, whose features no man can yet discern, but which must be essentially different from our Western ...

Ancient lead pollution stemmed largely from silver mining, whereby the lead-rich mineral galena was melted down to extract silver. For every ounce of silver obtained, this process produced ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the ...

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