These four lost cities were jewels of ancient Africa. What happened to them? Thonis-Heracleion, Alexandria, Meroë, and Jenne-Jeno were once centers of sophistication and wealth, but their ...

AFRICA: King In Exile. 4 minute read. ... the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of 1,300,000 Baganda tribesmen. Kampala, like Rome, ...

Livelihood diversity wasn't just a feature of ancient African societies; it was key to survival. New research covering millennia of African history reveals that livelihood diversification enabled ...

Analysis - One of the most significant African museum openings of 2024 was the Musée des Rois Bamoun, or Museum of the Bamoun Kings, in Foumban, Cameroon.

Experts on ancient Egypt are thrilled: "It’s always exciting to learn of new discoveries in the Valley of the Kings," says Peter Der Manuelian, an Egyptologist at Harvard University."This tomb ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the tomb belonged to remains a mystery.

Two men claim to be the emir of Kano, an ancient kingdom in northern Nigeria. Their struggle for power and influence is feeding into a wider competition ahead of the country’s next election.