Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of ...

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

Researchers have revealed an ancient town in Ethiopia belonging to one of the ancient world's major powers. The settlement, known as Beta Samati, once formed part of the Aksumite Empire—one of ...

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Documentaries about ancient civilizations are some of the most interesting, with several of them being engaging docuseries ...

Egypt was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on Saturday, the world’s largest museum dedicated to its ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Harvard's Henry ...