Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many explanations point to fertile soil, farming, and trade networks as the engines of ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

New research challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For the first time in the game’s 30-year history, leaders and civilizations can be chosen independently of one ...

The great historical importance of the discoveries made at Jemdet Nasr, seventeen miles northeast of Kish, Mesopotania, where fine polychrome pottery and pictographic tablets were found, was ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

The event celebrated Islamic civilization and underscored how knowledge can be turned into real life practice. Doha, Qatar: HH Sheikha Moza bint ...

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from... Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the ...