It marked a major shift in human history as societies transitioned from hunting ... As an Africanist archaeologist, I specialize in the study of ancient societies across Mediterranean Africa and the ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King ...

Hyaenodonts were the main meat-eating mammal at the time across what is now Africa and Arabia ... So the team took inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess of pleasure ...

In 2010, he received his PhD in Egyptology and came to William & Mary to teach and research the ancient, medieval, and modern histories of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as the history of ...

Explores the complex history and evolution of Africa, highlighting its rich cultural diversity, natural resources, and the impact of European colonization. It details how early European ...

A new paper on ancient DNA (aDNA) posits that every person on the planet is descended from hunter-gatherers in Africa. The study was published last month in the journal Nature. In the paper ...

Ancient Ghana derived power and wealth from ... The route taken by traders of the Maghreb to Ghana started in North Africa in Tahert, coming down through Sjilmasa in Southern Morocco.

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

We analysed the ancient genomes (complete DNA sequences ... old farming society in Morocco fills a major gap in history - north-west Africa was a central player in trade and culture Another ...