The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

He argued that these ancient civilizations were the ancestors to Europeans and the ones primarily responsible for contemporary western civilization—not people living in other parts of Africa and Asia.

"Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation ... Negres et Culture and Anteriorite des Civilizations Negres he profoundly influenced thinking about Africa around the world. Cheikh Anta Diop argues ...

Ancient African civilizations are unique in how they interacted with the world around them and the artifacts they left behind. The Nok people of modern-day Nigeria created sophisticated terracotta ...

A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in ...

In ancient Carthage, (now in Tunisia) the civilization used to follow brutal rituals of sacrificing children. This claim was previously denied in various Greek and Roman accounts but a 2014 study ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece ... of early civilizations in Western Asia and North Africa.

It’s amazing, isn’t it? Our blue planet. The only planet in the solar system that’s surface is covered in liquid water. But less than that 1% of it that is freshwater. Drain the salt-water ...