About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

Rather than introducing civilization to an undeveloped land ... This finding adds to a growing body of evidence that North Africa’s past is far more complex than previously assumed.

For centuries, and still today, the Middle East and North Africa have been the site of major civilizations that have attracted attention from afar. Likewise, a great deal of scholarship has explored ...

North African cities like Kairouan and Cairo became ... forming the basis of Swahili civilization. Contributions from the Islamic World: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī The scholar Muḥammad ...

Matt Stirn If you drive north from Khartoum along a narrow ... Kush was “at the root of black African civilizations, and for a long time scholars and the general public berated its achievements ...

In 1919, UChicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted formed the Oriental Institute (OI)—a world-renowned museum and interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of early civilizations in ...