Africa has a very long and varied history, and it contains some of the oldest civilisations and countries in the world. The first kingdom for which there is documentary evidence on the continent ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... The route taken by traders of the Maghreb to Ghana would have started in North Africa in Tahert, sweeping down through Sijilimasa in Southern ...

The Drimolen complex has produced multiple ancient fossils over the ... they later moved northwards into East Africa. From there they went through North Africa to populate the rest of the world." ...

the North African country of Sudan tops the list. Typically smaller than those found in Egypt, these Sudanese pyramids were constructed by the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush.

Burials at Mount Hora in Malawi yielded DNA used in the study DNA from ancient remains has been used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa. Researchers sequenced the ...