A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

How did the civilizations of North Africa connect with the rest of the continent in ancient and medieval times? This video explores the trans-Saharan trade routes, cultural exchanges, and powerful ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When South Africa’s apartheid ended, I was in my mid-twenties. Only a fool would have denied then that the ...

A low-res overview of the area covered by the medieval map. Although no contemporary map of medieval London exists, the team at HTT didn’t have to start from scratch.

Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps and advanced radar technology.

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Cholera hotspots are set to be identified in five African countries this year to guide the development of a roadmap for prevention, control, and elimination of this infectious disease that remains ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...