Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Discover the wisdom of ancient African proverbs and their relevance to Black history and lives today. Learn how these proverbs can inspire and empower.

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

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 ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

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 ...

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) ...

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 ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

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.

"The study highlights the importance of ancient DNA for reconstructing human history in regions like Central Northern Africa, providing independent support to archaeological hypotheses," said ...