Taken from History of The Patriarchs of Alexandria, 642, The Internet Medieval Sourcebook. WHY COME TO AFRICA? "I think this (the Muslim invasion of North Africa in 639) is an historical and ...

The remains of a long-lost society have been unearthed in Morocco, in a discovery that could rewrite the ancient history of ...

Despite their distance from European centers, the Jews of North Africa were forcefully displaced to detention and labor camps ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

While North Korea is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most constraining dictatorships, there is a country that has been dubbed "Africa's North Korea".

There are some 450 known languages in the Bantu family from Gikuyu in the north to Setswana in the ... But as with most areas of early African history there is a note of caution to be sounded ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...