The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its Slavery and Freedom exhibit and sending it back to South Africa. (AP Video by River Zhang) ...

History loves a good mystery. And honestly, few things are more unsettling than an entire civilization, with millions of ...

Last weekend marked the start of the Durban Bowling Club’s Men’s and Women’s Novice Singles Championships, where 32 bowlers compete for a place in the quarter-finals. As the competition intensifies, ...

The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa has been summoned to explain his criticism, the country's foreign minister said ...

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world's most widely cultivated "magic mushroom"—Psilocybe cubensis—may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater may have a new artistic director — former company member Alicia Graf Mack — but half of the legendary troupe’s Dallas program will be familiar. Two of the four works ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Tightly holding her citizenship certificate against her chest, Patrice Ann Robertson wiped away a tear; she's now officially Ghanaian nearly a decade after she started living in the west African ...

Claremore Christian School presented a living history exhibit Feb. 27 about 10 Africans who made significant contributions to early Christianity.

Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is not just a myth.

Buried in the deserts of the Near East, Egypt, and Central Asia, ancient libraries with troves of knowledge and wisdom have been uncovered.