Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor.

The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah was a crucial victory for Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate over the Sasanian Empire.

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Could ancient maps hold the key to lost civilizations and forgotten worlds? In this video, I’ll explore three mysterious maps that defy conventional history and challenge what we know about the ...

Now locals say the RSF has forces less than 20km from the pyramids, wrote the FT, and RSF drones have been "shot down" not ...

Researchers confirmed that Lion Cavern in Eswatini is the world's oldest ochre mine, dating back 48,000 years. Using ...

"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 ...

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

CEO James Mwangi says the Group plans to triple its regional subsidiaries to 15 by 2030, starting with Ethiopia before moving into Zambia and Angola via the Lobito Corridor project. Nigeria: NNPC ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...