The lifestyle of elite professional sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome was comparable to that of a celebrity today.

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

Ruins of 'First English Slave Fort in Africa' Found Buried Under Another Fort Leaves Archaeologists Stunned The slave trade ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the ...

Gnarled trunks and spindly offshoots both layer atop and are masked by Gaines' sequences, all viewed through sheets of ...

Can you name 10 kings or queens from history in 60 seconds? No Googling! Go!How did you do? High five if you got all 10! But ...

America was also the biggest donor of foreign aid. Initially, the point was to offer a hand-up to Africa’s underdeveloped ...

In the second part of our series, we take a look at how more Mexican states' names came to be and what they mean today.

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...