A traveling art exhibit celebrating African civilizations, Egyptian mythology, and historic landscapes arrives in ...

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 ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The exhibition Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt ...

Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile's waters carried from the Horn of ...

Around the year 600 AD, Egypt and North Africa were among the most important provinces of the Byzantine Empire. Egypt remained the empire’s main grain supplier, feeding the enormous population of ...

Africa is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations—nations whose histories span thousands of years, built on foundations of resilience, innovation, and cultural depth. These civilizations have ...

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...