The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

In the heart of Benin City, the Museum of West African Arts , MOWAA, is rising as a cultural beacon, reclaiming the ancient ...

Ancient Greeks of Bactria ruled over Gujarat, India under Menander around 150 B.C. and established trade contracts with the ...

"But in the ancient world it was the centre of an amazing civilisation." Some of the earliest human settlements in Africa, dating as far back as 8,000BC, have been found in Sudan. The kingdom of ...

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...

From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...

fertility and love in ancient Egypt. The discovery came as Egypt has doubled efforts to attract more tourists, a significant source of foreign currency for the cash-strapped North African country.

Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials ... which dates back to the Middle Kingdom (1938 B.C.-1630 B.C.), was found in the South Asasif ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival ... at the crossroads of inland African trade routes and caravan ...

fertility and love in ancient Egypt. The discovery came as Egypt has doubled efforts to attract more tourists, a significant source of foreign currency for the cash-strapped North African country.