Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has urged Nigerians  to rediscover the Bible as ...

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

How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco is appealing for fraternity with African nations amid rising hate speech concerns.

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

Now in its fifth volume, the latest edition contains spoken and written works of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also ...

The entire residents and people of ancient Oyo town could not hide their joy and ecstasy on Tuesday when the Alaafin, Oba ...

A burial mound in Turkey may have held the remains of a member of King Midas's family. But not all experts are convinced.

A major genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer populations that dispersed between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. By combining ...

Like a toy on a string, the timing of cat domestication has been a moving target. Now researchers have pounced on a new timeline suggesting that tame descendants of African wildcats left the continent ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...