The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

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South Africa was governed by one of the most oppressive racial systems in modern history: apartheid. Implemented in 1948 by ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

Peter Frankopan writes that little has changed since high-ranking Romans’ obsession with beauty and status symbols ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world's most important fossil discoveries have been made.

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

Beyoncé faced online backlash for wearing a Buffalo Soldiers shirt on tour. A Cornell Africana studies scholar is now ...