The DIA’s lead curator of African American art discusses what it means to move a collection from the margins of a museum to ...

History’s first American pope visited Africa against the backdrop of his calls for peace that have sparked a feud with U.S.

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Spanish researchers say they identified 124 shipwrecks dating from the ancient world to WWI in the 29-square-mile Bay of ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

Explore the history of Africa and the Middle East from the ancient era up to 2016. This video provides an overview of significant events and developments in the region, with a focus on the timeline ...

Dr. John E. Fleming was involved in the creation of the first national African American museum in Ohio and later, Smithsonian ...

Thirty enslaved Africans arrived at Point Comfort 407 years ago from Angola. One of their descendants, Wanda Tucker, watched as a new memorial at Fort Monroe honored her ancestors.

The "harbor" of the Strait of Gibraltar is the final resting place for shipwrecks from Ancient Rome, the Medieval era and ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...