Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

The museum's reopening serves as a symbolic display of stability ahead of planned elections in 2026, one expert told NBC News ...

Injuries were reported in an attack that the Syrian government’s news agency said happened near the ancient city of Palmyra.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

Libya's national museum, formerly known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle, has reopened in Tripoli, allowing the public ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a ...