The uplift of East Africa during the Miocene epoch dramatically transformed the region's climate and ecosystems, promoting ...
In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...
On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.
He is the first person from an Arab country and the second from an African nation to be named director-general of the UN's ...
Black Spectrum Theatre is starting its 56th season with action-packed reenactments of sometimes-obscure pieces of Black ...
The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are also believed to have been built during ...
Author Sam Kean writes about how experimental archaeology engages the senses and offers an intimate look into ancient history ...
The ancient Greek language and culture spread through Africa following the conquests of Alexander the Great on the continent.
Anani, a former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister, has been nominated by UNESCO's executive board to become its first ...
Just weeks after a pharaoh's 3,000-year-old bracelet was stolen, officials in Egypt say an even older piece of art has ...