Why Sudan’s Remarkable Ancient Civilization Has Been Overlooked by History The African nation’s pyramids and other archaeological sites are only now emerging from the shadow of its more ...

Analysis - One of the most significant African museum openings of 2024 was the Musée des Rois Bamoun, or Museum of the Bamoun Kings, in Foumban, Cameroon.

In northern Ethiopia, in the Tigray region, lies Axum (also spelled Aksum), an ancient city that once stood at the heart of one of Africa’s most powerful historical kingdoms: the Kingdom of Axum.

Tourists and officials last week flocked to the remote, grassy region of the West African country to attend Nguon, a set of royal rituals that date back to 1384, when the kingdom was founded. The ...

Changes in ancient north Africa. The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago, one ...

The 20th king of the Bamoun people, Mouhammad Nabil Mfourifoum Mbombo Njoya, stood up from his ornate throne -- a replica of the original, now at a German museum -- for the ancient ritual to get ...

King Mônjù (1461–1498) introduced an eight-day week, advancing the idea of chronological organisation. After a period of some stagnation, Mo'Nguh (1568–1590) reconstructed the palace ...