For a 2020 article and video about the ancient Egyptian course sequence at William & Mary, click here. For a 2016 article about Professor Pope's teaching, click here. Jeremy Pope completed ...

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

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.

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered the earliest known farming society from a previously unexplored period of northwestern Africa’s prehistory. A recent study published in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With such a significant history, South Africa is home to many ancient archaeological sites to visit. The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located on the border between Botswana and Namibia.

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 ...

Analysis - The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming. This sparked ...

Bullish (Video) Lands Below Sahara: Ancient Egypt & African History Documentary Posted: February 22, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 Explores the complex history and evolution of Africa ...