The skeletons of three 16th-century African slaves recovered from a mass grave in Mexico City are shedding new light on the early colonial-era slave trade.

Archaeologists have discovered mysterious ancient architecture cut into a rocky landscape on ... which lies off the southeastern coast of the African mainland. ... in the 16th century A.D., ...

Holdings from Ancient Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa come together in a ... though, architecture being ... A 16th-century ivory pendant — an icon of the Rockefeller Wing — depicts the ...

It's true: A servant from Africa named Yasuke achieved the rank of samurai warrior in Japan in the 16th century. ... Famous 16th century Japanese samurai was an African expatriate. Chelsey Cox.

More than half of the participants at the Architecture Biennale’s main exhibition ... “African Post Office,” presents ... a surface undulating from the columns of the 16th-century ...

Researchers have found the remains of African slaves in a 16 century Mexican graveyard, confirming accounts that slavery started in the New World soon after Europeans conquered Mexico, according ...

Ivory from a 16th century shipwreck reveals new details about African elephants Dozens of tusks from a sunken Portuguese trading ship have now been analyzed In 1533, a Portuguese trading ship ...

Ivory From 16th-Century Shipwreck Yields Clues to African Elephants’ Decline Researchers extracted DNA from tusks found in the wreckage of the “Bom Jesus,” a treasure-laden vessel that sank ...