Africa Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No matter what place or time, people have always studied the stars and other celestial objects. Archaeologists have discovered thousands of years old
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Aberdeen is to return a Benin bronze - a sculpture looted by British soldiers in Nigeria in one of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300 thousand years ago, where their fossils are found with the earliest cultural and technological expressions of our
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We read about historical places and events without thinking about what’s behind a name. For example, we can ask - Why is Africa
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The golden stool is sacred to the Ashanti people. It is a traditional symbol of leadership and a holy object that holds the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some 2,500 years ago, a mysterious Nok Culture emerged in Nigeria. It was discovered in 1928, due to tin mining that was happening
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – Ancient Pages.com – Clues to our past our hidden in ancient DNA and researchers have just made a new breakthrough. A new study of ancient
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There are still many ancient places on our planet that remain unknown or very little known to most people. One such place is
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African ‘homeland’ and thrived there for 70 thousand years,
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African Mythology
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Unkulunkulu is the Supreme Being and creator god in the mythology of the Zulu and Ndebele people in southern Africa. There was a common
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you happen to be in Zambia, Africa the last weekend in August you may want to experience the traditional Likumbi Lya Mize
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African Mythology
AncientPages.com - In 1976 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey and other scientists reported that they’d found ancient hominin footprints at a site in Laetoli, northeastern Tanzania. The footprints were frozen
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Featured Stories
Leonard Farra - AncientPages.com - For thousands of years, in many ways, the serpent has played a role in religions, folk customs, and superstitious beliefs. Why did some
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African Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting, and little-known stories told by African tribes. Africa was once home to several powerful civilizations, but sadly today, the
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Kids will be kids, no matter what country, place or time. Some things are ageless and never go out of fashion. Many modern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stone tools ranging in age from 500,000 to 60,000 years old in gold mines in eastern Sudan, have been discovered by an international team
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a controversial idea suggesting humans evolved in Europe instead of Africa. They base their theory on an 8-million-year-old skull that could
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African Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages - In mythology, Eshu is a spirit (Orisha) of African origin, from the religious traditions of the Yoruba people in present-day Nigeria. Eshu is the
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Will dense forests ever reveal the secrets of the mysterious abandoned city of Gedi, Kenya? Wild stories had been circulating about this lost city,
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yoruba peoples of South Western Africa are credited with one of Africa's oldest and finest art traditions. In the history of Ife
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Featured Stories
David Tee - AncientPages.com - What we know of Princess Mkabayi KaJama is found in Zulu oral history. Most of the information comes from what the Zulus called
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The need for people to communicate at a distance has a very long tradition, and one can say it is as old as humanity
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnar were two great African ports located on two islands close to each other just off the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - What if a single musical note could mean the difference between life and death? A new sensor based on a 3,000-year-old African musical instrument can be used
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is an ancient tradition associated with the Katanga Cross and copper in this part of Africa. A Katanga Cross is an important symbol
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our ancestors studied the stars and other celestial objects with great interest. They observed the movements of the Moon, the Sun and the stars
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Today, Sahara is a desert, but about 10,000 years ago this region of the world was green and fertile grassland. While excavating at a site named Takarkori
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Once a highly sophisticated and influential civilization in Nubia, it was located in northern Sudan. Nubian temples. An entrance to the Great Enclosure.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A new species of dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae, found recently in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, will help to reconstruct the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa, researchers
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence people in Sahara were familiar with glass technology centuries before the arrival of Europeans. During excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - We cannot rely on one theory, which suggests that modern humans evolved in Africa and then dispersed across Asia and reached Australia in a single wave about
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Museum of the Seminary of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada there are two very interesting stones that tell an intriguing story about North
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