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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

19) they acknowledge that it is “not easy to solve how far Europe is responsible for the art of metal casting in West Africa ... Antiquities from the City of Benin, &c., ...

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 ...

submerging much of the city. Historical records from the time describe a devastating natural disaster that also ravaged Alexandria, one of the greatest intellectual centers of the ancient world ...