The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

History is often taught as if serious art followed a single European arc—from classical Greek sculpture to Renaissance ...

The concept of culture / S. Ademola Ajayi -- Misconceptions about African culture, civilization and history / Felix O. Alao -- Sources for the study of early African culture and civilization / S.

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

Stuart Tyson Smith to deliver W.E.B. DuBois Virtual Lecture for Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Smith, who has been excavating the ancient site of Tombos in modern ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of ...