Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they found.

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...

The Senegambian stone circles stand as one of the most remarkable archaeological legacies in West Africa, spread across parts of present-day Senegal and The Gambia. These megalithic monuments offer ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

Introduction : chronologies and cultural change in Egypt / Ian Shaw -- Prehistory : from the Palaeolithic to the Badarian culture (c. 700,000-4000 BC / Stan Hendrickx and Pierre Vermeersch -- The ...

One of Yonga’s personal favourites in the Frame project is Sona or Tusona, an ancient, sophisticated and now rarely used writing system. It comes from the Chokwe, Luchazi and Luvale people, who live ...

One of Yonga's personal favourites in the Frame project is Sona or Tusona, an ancient, sophisticated and now rarely used writing system. It comes from the Chokwe, Luchazi and Luvale people, who live ...

This is the second discovery this year in the same area. Archaeological sources at the Karnak Temple confirmed that the discovered city lies between the ancient mud-brick wall built by King Thutmose ...

By Fatma Al-Zahraa Badawy. As Korean pop culture continues to gain ground across the Arabic-speaking region, a new generation of Egyptians is not only consuming it but shaping its local impact.From ...