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

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 ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

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 ...

Though Breasted moved the marker from Europe to Western Asia and North Africa, he was selective in the areas he chose to study. He wrote that the cultures who lived in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome ... research center dedicated to the study of early ...

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 ...