In October 2015, scientists reconstructed the genome of a 4,500-year-old man who lived in Ethiopia. It was the first time that anyone had created a complete genetic snapshot of an African from an ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included modern-day Guinea-Bissau. The stories of its royalty and reign have been told for generations ...

On the criteria that matter to medicine—not later industrial power— Africa led . Medicine does not exist in isolation. It depends on cities, sanitation, governance, and trade. Africa’s medical ...

Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained ...

In the suburbs of Seattle, an ancient West-African religion is gaining followers. Yoruba, from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, has been spreading across the U.S. for the last 50 years. The religion is ...

Includes extensively revised and updated papers originally presented at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000. Introduction: Locating ancient ...