Mansa Musa, the King of the Mali Empire, remains one of the wealthiest individuals in history, with his fortune far ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

A Malian military helicopter airlifted gold from the Barrick-owned Loulo-Gounkoto complex on Thursday, three sources said, ...

Mali's junta chief has granted himself a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times as necessary" and without ...

After thousands of years in the afterlife you might expect to stink like a moldy old scrotum, but as it turns out, ancient Egyptian mummies are still surprisingly easy on the nose.

As part of its milestone 10th anniversary celebration, the Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF), in collaboration ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

The nation’s preeminent museum returns a stunning collection to view.

Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, Peru, unexpectedly found something else entirely natural: A 1,000-year-old mummy. The find occurred just 20 inches below the surface, in what was ...

Farming without famine: Ancient Andean innovation rewrites agricultural origins Diet data shows consistent food resources during the transition from foraging to farming.

It is an ancient Native American trail that winds through Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana before connecting with another series of trails that extended outward from Natchitoches, Louisiana.