invading new territories and heading for the Great City of Meroe, the third and last capital of the Ancient Kingdom of Kush. Learn more in Africa's Great Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates ...

By Jethro Ibileke The Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II, has warned against what he called modern political interests seeking to erode the cultural dignity of the Benin people. He stated this in Benin on ...

Explore ancient African civilizations and the origin ... called Ife Heads were likely used as icons of power. Learn more in Africa's Great Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., premiering ...

A generation ago, artifacts from Africa were usually displayed ... mud that coated the exteriors of ancient Benin dwellings. This is the three-story Benin City National Museum, a collection ...

But other ancient places in Africa rivaled their greatness ... Ancient Egypt’s lost city of Thonis-Heracleion is one of the greatest submerged finds ever discovered by archaeologists.

Follow the Equator westward across Africa to its crotch where the ... corner stood until the end of the 19thCentury the ancient Kingdom of Benin. In 1486, six years before Columbus sailed to ...

Lagos has long been Nigeria’s creative pulse, an electrifying, sprawling city home to some of the most exciting and well-regarded fashion, music, and artistic talents of recent years. But an ...

in a discovery that could rewrite the ancient history of North Africa. The settlement dates back more than 5,000 years and is around the same size as the iconic city of Troy, radiocarbon dating ...