What are some of the ANCIENT TOWNS IN GHANA AND THEIR REGIONS? Check out this article to know more about these towns and the regions of location for each.

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... 10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing ...

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered the earliest known farming society from a previously unexplored period of ...

Today, the Asante people still remember their ancient traditions. They hold special ceremonies called durbars. This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering topics ranging ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...